Identification of functional circuitry between retrosplenial and postrhinal cortices during fear conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 12076-12086

  Robinson, Siobhan ^a   Poorman, Caroline E ^a   Marder, Thomas J ^a   Bucci, David J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL COUNT; CONDITIONING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HISTOLOGY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84865526264     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2814-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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