A Role for Prefrontal Cortex in Memory Storage for Trace Fear Conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1288-1295

  Runyan, Jason D ^a   Moore, Anthony N ^a   Dash, Pramod K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Erk MAPK; Hippocampus; Memory storage; Prefrontal cortex; Relevancy; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONDITIONING; CONDITIONING STIMULUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; TRACE FEAR CONDITIONING; TRAINING; UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; ELECTROSHOCK; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEAR; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1242291765     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4880-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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