Block of glucocorticoid synthesis during re-activation inhibits extinction of an established fear memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 453-460

  Blundell, Jacqueline ^a   Blaiss, Cory A ^b   Lagace, Diane C ^c   Eisch, Amelia J ^d   Powell, Craig M ^b,d  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Glucocorticoids; Metyrapone; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; METYRAPONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; METYRAPONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NAPHTHALENES; OXEPINS;

EID: 79955464981     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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