Pharmacological modulators of nitric oxide signaling and contextual fear conditioning in mice

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-74

  Kelley, Jonathan B ^a   Anderson, Karen L ^a   Itzhak, Yossef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Memory; Nitric oxide; Nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; MOLSIDOMINE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; S METHYLTHIOCITRULLINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN LEVEL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND MESSENGER; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CITRULLINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CYCLIC GMP; FEAR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIOUREA;

EID: 77955573506     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-010-1817-8     Document Type: Article

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