Contextual Fear Conditioning Is Associated with Lateralized Expression of the Immediate Early Gene c-fos in the Central and Basolateral Amygdalar Nuclei

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-14

  Scicli, Andrea P ^a,b   Petrovich, Gorica D ^a,c   Swanson, Larry W ^a   Thompson, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Boston Scientific Neurovascular   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN FOS;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 1242314306     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.1.5     Document Type: Article

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