Amygdala, deep cerebellar nuclei and red nucleus contribute to delay eyeblink conditioning in C57BL/6 mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1537-1551

  Sakamoto, Toshiro ^a,b   Endo, Shogo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cerebellum; Eyeblink conditioning; GABA; Mouse

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYSIS; EYELID REFLEX; INJECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED NUCLEUS; SHAM PROCEDURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROINJECTIONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RABBITS; RED NUCLEUS;

EID: 78149231968     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07406.x     Document Type: Article

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