Expressing acid-sensing ion channel 3 in the brain alters acid-evoked currents and impairs fear conditioning

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 444-450

  Vralsted, V C ^a,b   Price, M P ^b   Du, J ^b   Schnizler, M ^b   Wunsch, A M ^b   Ziemann, A E ^b   Welsh, M J ^a,b,c   Wemmie, J A ^a,b,c,d  

^a Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience   (United States)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid sensing ion channels; Amygdala; ASIC3; Fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

ACID SENSING ION CHANNEL; ACID SENSING ION CHANNEL 1A; ACID SENSING ION CHANNEL 3; CATION CHANNEL; SYNAPSIN I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACID EVOKED CURRENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN CELL; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR; FEAR CONDITIONING; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACIDS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; SODIUM CHANNELS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 79958059551     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2011.00683.x     Document Type: Article

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