Influence of massed and distributed context preexposure on contextual fear and egr-1 expression in the basolateral amygdala

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 206-214

  Perez Villalba, A ^a   Mackintosh, N J ^b   Canales, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basolateral Amygdala; Contextual fear conditioning; Delayed shock deficit; Distributed context preexposure; Egr 1 (zif268); Massed context preexposure

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EGR1 PROTEIN, RAT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATALEPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; HABITUATION; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 42449120693     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2007.08.017     Document Type: Article

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