Involvement of the basolateral amygdala in muscarinic cholinergic modulation of extinction memory consolidation

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-97

  Boccia, Mariano M ^b   Blake, Mariano G ^b   Baratti, Carlos M ^b   McGaugh, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquimica   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Contextual fear conditioning; Extinction; Memory consolidation; Oxotremorine

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; OXOTREMORINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTSHOCK; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; OXOTREMORINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC;

EID: 58549099849     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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