Arrest of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice impairs single- but not multiple-trial contextual fear conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 446-454

  Drew, Michael R ^a   Denny, Christine A ^a   Hen, Rene ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual fear conditioning; Dentate gyrus; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Postnatal neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; X IRRADIATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROPEPTIDES; X-RAYS;

EID: 77955823059     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020081     Document Type: Article

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