Amygdala c-Fos induction corresponds to unconditioned and conditioned aversive stimuli but not to freezing

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-120

  Holahan, Matthew R ^a   White, Norman M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; c Fos; Conditioned fear; Context conditioning; Freezing

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CELL POPULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FREEZING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STIMULUS;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVERSIVE THERAPY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 2342578692     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2003.09.031     Document Type: Article

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