Auditory fear conditioning and long-term potentiation in the lateral amygdala require ERK/MAP kinase signaling in the auditory thalamus: A role for presynaptic plasticity in the fear system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5730-5739

  Apergis Schoute, Annemieke M ^a   Dȩbiec, Jacek ^a   Doyère, Valérie ^a,b   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a   Schafe, Glenn E ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; LTP; MAP kinase; Medial geniculate; Rat

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; 5,6 DICHLOROBENZIMIDAZOLE RIBOSIDE; ANISOMYCIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMUS; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BUTADIENES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEAR; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NITRILES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 20544468529     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0096-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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