C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice differ in extinction and renewal of extinguished conditioned fear

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 567-576

  Waddell, Jaylyn ^a   Dunnett, Claire ^a   Falls, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

C57BL 6J mice; Conditioned fear; DBA 2J mice

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4143093556     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.03.025     Document Type: Article

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