Novel temporal configurations of stimuli produce discrete changes in immediate-early gene expression in the rat hippocampus

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2611-2621

  Amin, Eman ^a   Pearce, John M ^a   Brown, Malcolm W ^b   Aggleton, John P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

c fos; Configural learning; Parahippocampal region; Temporal memory; zif268

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOS; PROTEIN ZIF268; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CUES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS;

EID: 33750914442     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05131.x     Document Type: Article

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