Enhanced cortico-amygdala efficacy and suppressed fear in absence of Rap1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2089-2098

  Pan, Bing Xing ^a,c   Vautier, Francois ^a,d   Ito, Wataru ^a   Bolshakov, Vadim Y ^b   Morozov, Alexei ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cortex; Fear; LTP; Rap1; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; RAP1 PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAP1A GENE; RAP1B GENE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEAR; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RAP GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAP1 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 39849097054     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5156-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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