Dynamic amino acid increases in the basolateral amygdala during acquisition and expression of conditioned fear

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3391-3398

  Venton, B Jill ^a,c   Robinson, Terry E ^a   Kennedy, Robert T ^a,b   Maren, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartate; Capillary electrophoresis; GABA; Glutamate; Glycine; Plasticity; Taurine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECALL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WHITE NOISE;

AMINO ACIDS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICRODIALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33745224085     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04841.x     Document Type: Article

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