Transgenic inhibition of neuronal calcineurin activity in the forebrain facilitates fear conditioning, but inhibits the extinction of contextual fear memories

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 595-598

  Havekes, Robbert ^a   Nijholt, Ingrid M ^a   Visser, Anniek K D ^a   Eisel, Ulrich L M ^a   Van der Zee, Eddy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Learning; Memory; Protein phosphatase 2B; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOREBRAIN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REINFORCEMENT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CALCINEURIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 41649110220     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2007.08.003     Document Type: Article

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