Amygdaloid lesions produced similar contextual fear conditioning disruption in the Carioca high- and low-conditioned freezing rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1233, Issue , 2008, Pages 137-145

  de Castro Gomes, Vitor ^a   Landeira Fernandez, J ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Animal models of anxiety disorder; Contextual fear conditioning; Emotionality; Genetic selection; Selective breeding

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 51449111468     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.044     Document Type: Article

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