Fear conditioning and extinction differentially modify the intrinsic excitability of infralimbic neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4028-4036

  Santini, Edwin ^a   Quirk, Gregory J ^b   Porter, James T ^a  

^a PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Bursting; Fear expression; Medial prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic; sAHP

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPIKE WAVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 43049156493     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2623-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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