Blocking mineralocorticoid receptors prior to retrieval reduces contextual fear memory in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Ming ^a   Kindt, Merel ^b   Joëls, Marian ^a,c   Krugers, Harm J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEAR MEMORY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECALL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CUES; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIFEPRISTONE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SPIRONOLACTONE;

EID: 80053949457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026220     Document Type: Article

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