Substantia nigra, nucleus basalis magnocellularis and basolateral amygdala roles in extinction of contextual fear conditioning in the rat

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-205

  Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Contextual fear conditioning; Extinction; Nucleus basalis magnocellularis; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 77955578699     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.05.007     Document Type: Article

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