Activation and role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in extinction of ethanol-induced associative learning in mice

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-46

  Groblewski, Peter A ^a,b   Ryabinin, Andrey E ^a,b   Cunningham, Christopher L ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Conditioned place preference; Ethanol; Extinction; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mice

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRALIMBIC REGION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ETHANOL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MICE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84155195207     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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