Behavioral effects of metyrapone on Pavlovian extinction

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 371, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 91-96

  Barrett, Douglas ^a   Gonzalez Lima, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Extinction; Freezing behavior; Memory consolidation; Metyrapone; Pavlovian conditioning

Indexed keywords

METYRAPONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG EFFECT; EXAMINATION; FREEZING; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; METYRAPONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA;

EID: 7444252873     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.08.046     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. D. Barrett, J. Shumake, D. Jones, and F. Gonzalez-Lima Metabolic mapping of mouse brain activity following extinction of a conditioned emotional response J. Neurosci. 23 2003 5740 5749
2. B. Bohus, B. Bohus, and E.R. de Kloet Adrenal steroids and extinction behavior: antagonism by progesterone, deoxycorticosterone and dexamethasone of a specific effect of corticosterone Life Sci. 28 1981 433 440
3. M.E. Bouton Context, ambiguity and unlearning: sources of relapse after behavioral extinction Biol. Psychiatry 52 2002 976 986
4. L. Cahill, and J.L. McGaugh Mechanisms of emotional arousal and lasting declarative memory Trends Neurosci. 21 1998 294 299
5. G.D. Coover, L. Goldman, and S. Levine Plasma corticosterone levels during extinction of a lever-press response in hippocampectomized rats Physiol. Behav. 7 1971 727 732
6. M.I. Cordero, N.D. Kruyt, J.J. Merino, and C. Sandi Glucocorticoid involvement in memory formation in a rat model for traumatic memory Stress 5 2002 73 79
7. P. Garrud, J.A. Gray, and D. De Wied Pituitary-adrenal hormones and extinction of rewarded behavior in the rat Physiol. Behav. 12 1974 109 119
8. R.C. Haynes Jr. Adrenocorticotropic hormone; adrenocortical steroids and their synthetic analogs; inhibitors of the synthesis and actions of adrenocortical hormones A. Goodman L. Gillman The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics 1990 Pergamon Press New York 1431 1462
9. J.W. Hennessy, M.E. Cohen, and A.J. Rosen Adrenocortical influences upon the extinction of an appetitive runway response Physiol. Behav. 11 1973 767 770
10. P. Hernandez-Poudevida, B.S. McEwen, G.J. Quirk, Inhibition of corticosterone with metyrapone prevents extinction of the conditioned emotional response (CER), Soc. Neurosci. (Abstr.) (2002) 83.15.
11. G.K. Hui, I.R. Figueroa, B.S. Poytress, B. Roozendaal, J.L. McGaugh, and N.M. Weinberger Memory enhancement of classical fear conditioning by post-training injections of corticosterone in rats Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 81 2004 67 74
12. L. Liu, M. Tsuji, H. Takeda, K. Takada, and T. Matsumiya Adrenocortical suppression blocks the enhancement of memory storage by exposure to psychological stress in rats Brain Res. 821 1999 134 140
13. M. Loscertales, S.P.R. Rose, and C. Sandi The corticosteroid synthesis inhibitors metyrapone and aminoglutethimide impair long-term memory for a passive avoidance task in day-old chicks Brain Res. 769 1997 357 361
14. S.J. Lupien, and B.S. McEwen The acute effects of corticosteroids on cognition: integration of animal and human model studies Brain Res. Rev. 24 1997 1 27
15. S.J. Lupien, C.W. Wilkinson, S. Briere, C. Menard, N.M.K. Ng Ying Kin, and N.P. Nair The modulatory effects of corticosteroids on cognition: studies in young human populations Psychoneuroendrincology 27 2002 401 416
16. B.S. McEwen, E.R. de Kloet, and W. Rostene Adrenal steroid receptors and actions in the nervous system Physiol. Rev. 66 1986 1121 1188
17. M.R. Milad, and G.J. Quirk Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction Nature 420 2002 70 74
18. H.P. Nair, and F. Gonzalez-Lima Extinction of behavior in infant rats: development of functional coupling between septal, hippocampal, and ventral tegmental regions J. Neurosci. 19 1999 8646 8655
19. M.S. Oitzl, and E.R. De Kloet Selective corticosteroid antagonists modulate specific aspects of spatial orientation learning Behav. Neurosci. 106 1992 62 71
20. I.P. Pavlov Conditioned Reflexes 1927 Oxford UP London
21. C.R. Pugh, M. Fleshner, and J.W. Rudy Type II glucocorticoid receptor antagonists impair contextual but not auditory-cue fear conditioning in juvenile rats Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 67 1997 75 79
22. B. Roozendaal, B. Bohus, and J.L. McGaugh Dose-dependent suppression of adrenocortical activity with metyrapone: effects on emotion and memory Psychoneuroendocrinology 21 1996 681 693
23. B. Roozendaal, O. Carmi, and J.L. McGaugh Adrenocortical suppression blocks the memory-enhancing effects of amphetamine and epinephrine Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 1996 1429 1433
24. D. Rotllant, S. Ons, J. Carrasco, and A. Armario Evidence that metyrapone can act as a stressor: effect on pituitary-adrenal hormones, plasma glucose and brain c-fos induction Eur. J. Neurosci. 16 2002 693 700
25. W.P. Smotherman, and S. Levine ACTH effects on response suppression and plasma corticosterone in the mouse Physiol. Behav. 20 1978 503 507
26. D. Strashmirov, and B. Bohus Effect of 2-methyl-1,2-bis-(3-pyridyl)-1- propanone (SU-4885) on adrenocortical secretion in normal and hypophysectomized rats Steroids 7 1966 171 180
27. M. Zorawski, and S. Killcross Posttraining glucocorticoid receptor agonist enhances memory in appetitive and aversive Pavlovian discrete-cue conditioning paradigms Neurobiol. Learn. Mem. 78 2003 458 464