Effects of mineralocorticoid receptors blockade on fear memory reconsolidation in rats

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 58-66

  Vafaei, Abbas Ali ^a   Pakdel, Roghyeh ^a   Nikzad, Saeed ^a   Rashidy Pour, Ali ^a  

^a SEMNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cycloheximide; Hippocampus; Memory reconsolidation; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Passive avoidance task; Rat

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY REACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84859762040     PISSN: 2008126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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