Antagonism of lateral amygdala alpha1-adrenergic receptors facilitates fear conditioning and long-term potentiation

Learning and Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 489-493

  Lazzaro, Stephanie C ^a   Hou, Mian ^a   Cunha, Catarina ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a,b   Cain, Christopher K ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; TERAZOSIN;

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; FEAR; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEAR; INJECTIONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRAZOSIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 78649564295     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1918210     Document Type: Article

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