Glucocorticoids in the prefrontal cortex enhance memory consolidation and impair working memory by a common neural mechanism

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 38, 2010, Pages 16655-16660

  Barsegyan, Areg ^a   Mackenzie, Scott M ^b   Kurose, Brian D ^b   McGaugh, James L ^b   Roozendaal, Benno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Corticosterone; Norepinephrine; Prelimbic cortex; Protein kinase A

Indexed keywords

11BETA,17BETA DIHYDROXY 6 METHYL 17ALPHA (1 PROPYNYL)ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIEN 3 ONE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; OXPRENOATE POTASSIUM; 11,17-DIHYDROXY-6-METHYL-17-(1-PROPYNYL)ANDROSTA-1,4,6-TRIENE-3-ONE; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WORKING MEMORY; AGONISTS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

AMYGDALA; ANDROSTANOLS; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 78049271284     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011975107     Document Type: Article

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