Associative Pavlovian conditioning leads to an increase in spinophilin-immunoreactive dendritic spines in the lateral amygdala

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 876-884

  Radley, Jason J ^a   Johnson, Luke R ^c,d   Janssen, William G M ^b   Martino, Jeremiah ^c,d   Lamprecht, Raphael ^c,d   Hof, Patrick R ^b,d   LeDoux, Joseph E ^c,d   Morrison, John H ^b,d  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NIMH Center for Fear and Anxiety   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine; Electron microscopy; Fear conditioning; Immunohistochemistry; Learning; Rat; Spinophilin

Indexed keywords

SPINOPHILIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SHOCK; STEREOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENDRITIC SPINES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33747174525     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04962.x     Document Type: Article

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