Long-term memory for pavlovian fear conditioning requires dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and basolateral amygdala

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Fadok, Jonathan P ^a,b   Darvas, Martin ^b   Dickerson, Tavis M K ^b   Palmiter, Richard D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; FEAR; FEMALE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT;

MUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOPAMINE; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 77958517985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012751     Document Type: Article

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