Selective modification of short-term hippocampal synaptic plasticity and impaired memory extinction in mice with a congenitally reduced hippocampal commissure

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 8277-8286

  Schimanski, Lesley A ^a   Wahlsten, Douglas ^a,b   Nguyen, Peter V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agenesis; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Hippocampal commissure; Learning; LTP; Memory; Mouse strains; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACILITATION; FEAR; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INBRED STRAIN; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037107178     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-18-08277.2002     Document Type: Article

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