Deficits in trace cued fear conditioning in galanin-treated rats and galanin-overexpressing transgenic mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 178-190

  Kinney, Jefferson W ^a   Starosta, Grzegorz ^a   Holmes, Andrew ^a   Wrenn, Craige C ^a   Yang, Rebecca J ^a   Harris, Ashley P ^a   Long, Katharine C ^a   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; HORMONE ACTION; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FEAR; GALANIN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0036667156     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/m.49502     Document Type: Article

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