Protein Kinase Mzeta Maintains Fear Memory in the Amygdala but Not in the Hippocampus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 844-850

  Kwapis, Janine L ^a   Jarome, Timothy J ^a   Lonergan, Mary E ^a   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; fear conditioning; hippocampus; protein kinase Mzeta; ZIP

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE M ZETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSULA; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASTE AVERSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67949117136     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016343     Document Type: Article

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