Muscarinic Receptors in Amygdala Control Trace Fear Conditioning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Baysinger, Amber N ^a   Kent, Brianne A ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; SCOPOLAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS PERSISTENT FIRING; FEAR; FREEZING; HYPOTHESIS; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; TRACE FEAR CONDITIONING; TRANSIENT MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE;

EID: 84866726732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045720     Document Type: Article

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