Rethinking the role of L-type voltage-gated calcium channels in fear memory extinction

Learning and Memory

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 324-325

  Schafe, Glenn E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CORTICOSTERONE; NIFEDIPINE;

CHRONIC STRESS; FEAR; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THINKING;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; NIFEDIPINE; PROSENCEPHALON; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 43049118958     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.996908     Document Type: Note

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