The endogenous cannabinoid system controls extinction of aversive memories

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6897, 2002, Pages 530-534

  Marsicano, Giovanni ^a   Wotjak, Carsten T ^b   Azad, Shahnaz C ^c,d   Bisogno, Tiziana ^e   Rammes, Gerhard ^c   Cascioll, Maria Grazia ^e   Hermann, Heike ^a   Tang, Jianrong ^b   Hofmann, Clementine ^c,f   Zieglgänsberger, Walter ^c   Di Marzo, Vincenzo ^e   Lutz, Beat ^a  

^a Molecular Genetics of Behaviour   (Germany)

^b Neuronal Plasticity Mouse Behaviour   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CONSOLIDATION; CONTROL; NEUROLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

EXTINCTIONS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CANNABINOID; RIMONABANT;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EXTINCTION; MEMORY;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CANNABINOIDS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE DELETION; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PIPERIDINES; PYRAZOLES; RECEPTORS, CANNABINOID; RECEPTORS, DRUG; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036682222     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00839     Document Type: Article

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