Phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in the medial prefrontal cortex and the amygdala following memory retrieval or forgetting in developing rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-68

  Kim, Jee Hyun ^a   Li, Stella ^a   Hamlin, Adam S ^a,b   McNally, Gavan P ^a   Richardson, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear; Forgetting; MAPK; Memory; MPFC

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UPREGULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84155186528     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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