Perinatal exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin suppresses contextual fear conditioning-accompanied activation of cyclic AMP response element-binding protein in the hippocampal CA1 region of male rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 398, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 206-210

  Mitsui, Tetsuo ^a   Sugiyama, Nobuhiro ^a   Maeda, Shuichiro ^a   Tohyama, Chiharu ^b   Arita, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contextual fear conditioning; Cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB); Dioxin; Hippocampus; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

2,3,7,8 TETRACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LACTATION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

EID: 33646351317     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.12.087     Document Type: Article

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