Induction of immediate early genes in the mouse auditory cortex after auditory cued fear conditioning to complex sounds

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 314-324

  Peter, M ^a   Scheuch, H ^a   Burkard, T R ^a   Tinter, J ^a   Wernle, T ^a,b   Rumpel, S ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arc; c fos; Memory; Microarray; QPCR

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY FEAR CONDITIONING; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA ANALYSIS; SOUND; UPREGULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEAR; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84859429900     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2011.00761.x     Document Type: Article

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