Trace fear conditioning is enhanced in mice lacking the δ subunit of the GABAA receptor

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 327-333

  Wiltgen, Brian J ^a   Sanders, Matthew J ^a   Ferguson, Carolyn ^b   Homanics, Gregg E ^b   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR DELTA; NEUROSTEROID; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXCITABILITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 21844432115     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.89705     Document Type: Article

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