Stimulation of the nucleus raphe medialis modifies basal synaptic transmission at the dentate gyrus, but not long-term potentiation or its reinforcement by stimulation of the basolateral amygdala

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 464, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 179-183

  Bergado, Jorge A ^a   Scherf, Thomas ^b   Almaguer Melian, William ^a   Frey, Sabine ^b   López, Jeffrey ^b   Frey, Julietta U ^b  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE RESTAURACIÓN NEUROLÓGICA CIREN   (Cuba)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Freely moving rats; Hippocampal long term potentiation; LTP reinforcement; Nucleus raphe medialis

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 70149102181     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.08.034     Document Type: Article

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