Methylene blue facilitates the extinction of fear in an animal model of susceptibility to learned helplessness

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-217

  Wrubel, Kathryn M ^a   Barrett, Douglas ^a   Shumake, Jason ^a   Johnson, S Elizabeth ^a   Gonzalez Lima, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Congenitally helpless rats; Cytochrome oxidase; Disease susceptibility; Exposure therapy; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Memory retention; Metabolic enhancer; Methylene blue; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

METHYLENE BLUE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEAR; FEMALE; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; METHYLENE BLUE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845964390     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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