Post-training ethanol disrupts trace conditioned fear in rats: Effects of timing of ethanol, dose and trace interval duration

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-80

  Hunt, Pamela S ^a   Levillain, Mary E ^a   Spector, Bethany M ^a   Kostelnik, Lauren A ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Amygdala; Delay conditioning; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; ETHANOL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58549100935     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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