L-type voltage-gated calcium channels in the basolateral amygdala are necessary for fear extinction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 13582-13586

  Davis, Stephanie E ^a   Bauer, Elizabeth P ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NIFEDIPINE; VERAPAMIL; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HABITUATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SHOCK; TRAINING;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 84866679759     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0809-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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