Facilitating influence of stress on the consolidation of fear memory induced by a weak training: Reversal by midazolam pretreatment

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-84

  Maldonado, Noelia Martina ^a   Martijena, Irene Delia ^a   Molina, Víctor Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Contextual fear memory; Memory consolidation; P ERK1 2; Stress

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FACILITATION; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

AMYGDALA; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MIDAZOLAM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960675515     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.06.035     Document Type: Article

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