Nuclear disconnection within the amygdala reveals a direct pathway to fear

Learning and Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 766-768

  Jimenez, Stephanie A ^a   Maren, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NERVE NET; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 73349114272     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1607109     Document Type: Article

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