Brief uncontrollable stress causes dendritic retraction in infralimbic cortex and resistance to fear extinction in mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5733-5738

  Izquierdo, Alicia ^a,c   Wellman, Cara L ^b   Holmes, Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic arborization; Fear extinction; Infralimbic cortex; mPFC; PTSD; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; C57BL MOUSE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DENDRITES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STRESS;

EID: 33744991083     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0474-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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