Contextual, but not auditory, fear conditioning is disrupted by neurotoxic selective lesion of the basal nucleus of amygdala in rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 165-174

  Onishi, Barbara K A ^a   Xavier, Gilberto F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Auditory stimulus; Basal nucleus; Context; Fear conditioning; Memory; Neurotoxic lesion

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 76949104270     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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