Environmental manipulation differentially alters c-Fos expression in amygdaloid nuclei following aversive conditioning

Brain Research

Volumn 957, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 91-98

  Nikolaev, Evgeni ^a,b   Kaczmarek, Leszek ^b   Zhu, Shun Wei ^a   Winblad, Bengt ^a   Mohammed, Abdul H ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amygdaloid nucleus; c Fos; Emotion; Enriched environment; Fear conditioning; Impoverished environment; Rat

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BREEDING METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THALAMUS; TRAINING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS;

EID: 0037032655     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03606-5     Document Type: Article

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