Brain-derived neurotrophic factor plays a critical role in contextual fear conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 36, 2004, Pages 7958-7963

  Liu, Ingrid Y C ^a,d   Lyons, W Ernest ^b,c   Mamounas, Laura A ^b,c   Thompson, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

BDNF; Context; Fear conditioning; Heterozygous; Knock out; Tone

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RECOMBINANT BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TONE LEARNING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 4544370251     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1948-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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