Effects of prolonged exposure to context following contextual fear conditioning on synaptic properties in rat hippocampal slices

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 385-389

  Gao, Ying ^a   Han, Huili ^b,c   Xu, Ruchang ^e   Cao, Jun ^b   Luo, Jianhong ^a   Xu, Lin ^b,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Context exposure; Intervention; Long term depression; Paired pulse facilitation; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DESENSITIZATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOME ENVIRONMENT; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROSHOCK; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 46149104096     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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