Facilitating actions of an AMPA receptor potentiator upon extinction of contextually conditioned fear response in stressed mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 488, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 242-246

  Yamada, Daisuke ^a,b   Wada, Keiji ^a,b   Sekiguchi, Masayuki ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

D Cycloserine; Extinction; Fear memory; PEPA; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 [2 (PHENYLSULFONYLAMINO)ETHYLTHIO] 2,6 DIFLUOROPHENOXYACETAMIDE; AMPA RECEPTOR; CYCLOSERINE; DRUG VEHICLE; ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEAR; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; FREEZING TOLERANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STRESS;

ACETAMIDES; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CYCLOSERINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTORS, AMPA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78650804423     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.11.038     Document Type: Article

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