The effects of ibotenic hippocampal lesions on discriminative fear conditioning to context in mice: Impairment or facilitation depending on the associative value of a phasic explicit cue

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1953-1963

  Desmedt, Aline ^a,c   Marighetto, Aline ^a   Garcia, René ^b   Jaffard, Robert ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Lab Neurobiologie Comportementale   (France)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classical fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Ibotenic lesions; Mouse

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; IMMOBILIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 0038730668     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02615.x     Document Type: Article

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