Acute stress facilitates trace eyeblink conditioning in C57BL/6 male mice and increases the excitability of their CA1 pyramidal neurons

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 138-143

  Weiss, Craig ^a   Sametsky, Evgeny ^a   Sasse, Astrid ^b   Spiess, Joachim ^b   Disterhoft, John F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EYELID REFLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STRESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ACUTE DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 17144430915     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.89005     Document Type: Article

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