Role of the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) in amygdalo-hippocampal interactions and salience determination of contextual fear memory

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 661-674

  Albrecht, Anne ^a   Bergado Acosta, Jorge Ricardo ^a   Pape, Hans Christian ^c   Stork, Oliver ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Centre for Behavioural Brain Sciences Magdeburg (CBBS)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Neural cell adhesion molecule; Salience coding

Indexed keywords

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MEMORY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THETA RHYTHM;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 77953539481     PISSN: 14611457     EISSN: 14695111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145709991106     Document Type: Article

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