The Group I Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor mGluR5 Is Required for Fear Memory Formation and Long-Term Potentiation in the Lateral Amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 5219-5229

  Rodrigues, Sarina M ^a   Bauer, Elizabeth P ^a   Farb, Claudia R ^a   Schafe, Glenn E ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; LTP; mGluR5; MPEP; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 6 (2 PHENYLVINYL)PYRIDINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; 6 METHYL 2 (PHENYLETHYNYL)PYRIDINE; 6-METHYL-2-(PHENYLETHYNYL)PYRIDINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; THALAMUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DENDRITE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DENDRITES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEAR; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 0037096244     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-12-05219.2002     Document Type: Article

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