CB1 cannabinoid receptors modulate kinase and phosphatase activity during extinction of conditioned fear in mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 625-632

  Cannich, Astrid ^a   Wotjak, Carsten T ^a   Kamprath, Kornelia ^a   Hermann, Heike ^a   Lutz, Beat ^a   Marsicano, Giovanni ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECALL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REINFORCEMENT; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4-KINASE; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CALCINEURIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4644312881     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.77904     Document Type: Article

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