Differential contribution of dorsal and ventral hippocampus to trace and delay fear conditioning

Hippocampus

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-44

  Esclassan, Frederic ^a,b   Coutureau, Etienne ^a   Di Scala, Georges ^a   Marchand, Alain R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Contextual fear; Freezing; Muscimol; NMDA lesions; Rat

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; GABA AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCIMOL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 58149461678     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20473     Document Type: Article

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