Post-training reversible inactivation of the rat's basolateral amygdala interferes with hippocampus-dependent place avoidance memory in a time-dependent manner

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-93

  Vafaei, Abbas Ali ^a   Jezek, Karel ^b   Bures, Jan ^b   Fenton, André A ^b,c   Rashidy Pour, Ali ^a  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Cognition; Functional ablation; Hippocampus; Navigation; Place avoidance; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRODOTOXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; EVALUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAINING;

AMYGDALA; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34249276015     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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