Trace and contextual fear conditioning are impaired following unilateral microinjection of muscimol in the ventral hippocampus or amygdala, but not the medial prefrontal cortex

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 452-464

  Gilmartin, Marieke R ^a   Kwapis, Janine L ^a   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disconnection; Fear memory; Lidocaine; Prelimbic; Temporal lobe; Trace fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; MUSCIMOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MICROINJECTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACE FEAR CONDITIONING; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MUSCIMOL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84861189045     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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