GABAA receptors containing the α5 subunit mediate the trace effect in aversive and appetitive conditioning and extinction of conditioned fear

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1928-1936

  Yee, Benjamin K ^a   Hauser, Jonas ^a   Dolgov, Vadim V ^a   Keist, Ruth ^b   Möhler, Hanns ^a,b   Rudolph, Uwe ^b   Feldon, Joram ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extinction; GABA; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; AVERSIVE THERAPY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 8144226853     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03642.x     Document Type: Article

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