Nicotinic receptors in the dorsal and ventral hippocampus differentially modulate contextual fear conditioning

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1681-1690

  Kenney, Justin W ^a,b   Raybuck, Jonathan D ^a,c   Gould, Thomas J ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Learning; Low affinity nAChRs; Mouse; Nicotine

Indexed keywords

METHYLLYCACONITINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACONITINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 84863782200     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22003     Document Type: Article

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