Dissociated roles for the lateral and medial septum in elemental and contextual fear conditioning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 422-429

  Calandreau, Ludovic ^a   Jaffard, Robert ^a   Desmedt, Aline ^a  

^a UMR 5287   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LATERAL SEPTUM; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL SEPTUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 34249938780     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.531407     Document Type: Article

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