Corticosterone facilitates extinction of fear memory in BALB/c mice but strengthens cue related fear in C57BL/6 mice

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 375-382

  Brinks, V ^a   de Kloet, E R ^a   Oitzl, M S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BALB c; C57BL 6J; Corticosterone; Fear behaviour; Learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEAR; FREEZING; GENETICS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 62349085427     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.12.011     Document Type: Article

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