Fluoxetine protects hippocampal plasticity during conditioned fear stress and prevents fear learning potentiation

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 583-589

  Spennato, Guillaume ^a   Zerbib, Carine ^a   Mondadori, Cesare ^b   Garcia, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b Bâtiment la Fabrique ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Fear extinction and recovery; Freezing behavior; Hippocampus; Rats; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; STRESS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; EYELIDS; FEAR; FLUOXETINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 43049124819     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-0993-7     Document Type: Article

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