Activation of the amygdalo-entorhinal pathway in fear-conditioning in rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1652-1659

  Majak, Katarzyna ^a,b   Pitkänen, Asla ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

c Fos; Emotion; Fluoro Gold; Learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEAR; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNEURON; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SHOCK;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEAR; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IONTOPHORESIS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STILBAMIDINES;

EID: 0141593504     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02854.x     Document Type: Article

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