The central amygdala nucleus via corticotropin-releasing factor is necessary for time-limited consolidation processing but not storage of contextual fear memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 86-91

  Pitts, Matthew W ^a   Takahashi, Lorey K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Central amygdala; Contextual fear conditioning; Contextual memory storage; Corticotropin releasing factor; CRF antisense oligonucleotides; Emotional memory consolidation

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; RECALL; VALIDITY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 78651259609     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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