Differential regulation of CaMKII inhibitor β protein expression after exposure to a novel context and during contextual fear memory formation

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 648-657

  Radwanska K ^a,b   Tudor Jones, A A ^a   Mizuno, K ^a   Pereira, G S ^a,c   Lucchesi, W ^a   Alfano, I ^d   Lach A ^b   Kaczmarek, L ^b   Knapp, S ^d   Peter Giese, K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CaMKII; amygdala; CaMKII N ; context; fear memory; hippocampus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; INHIBITOR PROTEIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEAR; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PERIKARYON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRIFORM CORTEX; THALAMUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLFACTORY BULB; PROSENCEPHALON; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77955170595     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00595.x     Document Type: Article

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