Encoding of emotion-paired spatial stimuli in the rodent hippocampus

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2012, Pages

  Nalloor, Rebecca ^a   Bunting, Kristopher M ^a   Vazdarjanova, Almira ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc; CatFISH; Dorsal hippocampus; Emotional memory; Fear conditioning; Homer 1a; Ventral CA1; Ventral CA3

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN HOMER 1A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; EMOTION PAIRED SPATIAL STIMULUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONAL ENSEMBLE SIZE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION;

EID: 84864390269     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00027     Document Type: Article

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