Early life environment determines the development of adult phobic-like fear responses in BALB/cAnN mice

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 947-957

  Thoeringer, C K ^a   Pfeiffer, U J ^a   Rammes, G ^a   Pamplona, F A ^a   Moosmang, S ^a   Wotjak, C T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; BALB cAnN; C57BL 6N; Conditioned fear; Early life environment; GluR1 trafficking; Inbred mice; LTD

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; FEAR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 78349274370     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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