Glucocorticoid administration into the dorsal stratium facilitates memory consolidation of inhibitory avoidance training but not of the context or footshock components

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 673-677

  Medina, Andrea C ^a   Charles, Jonathan R ^a,b   Espinoza González, Verónica ^a   Sánchez Resendis, Oscar ^a   Prado Alcalá, Roberto A ^a   Roozendaal, Benno ^b   Quirarte, Gina L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MIFEPRISTONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; INJECTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTERONE; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 35448973682     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.654407     Document Type: Article

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