Substantia nigra role in fear conditioning consolidation

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-139

  Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Mariottini, Chiara ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aversive responses; Context; Functional inactivation; Nigrostriatal dopaminergic system

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 33750512352     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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