Fear and safety learning differentially affect synapse size and dendritic translation in the lateral amygdala

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9418-9423

  Ostroff, Linnaea E ^a   Cain, Christopher K ^a   Bedont, Joseph ^a,b   Monfils, Marie H ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine; Fear conditioning; Lateral amygdala; Polyribosome; Spine apparatus

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL VACUOLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SAFETY; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SYNAPSE;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENDRITES; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, SMOOTH; FEAR; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POLYRIBOSOMES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

RATTUS;

EID: 77952704488     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913384107     Document Type: Article

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