Neural substrates of fear conditioning, extinction, and spontaneous recovery in passive avoidance learning: A c-fos study in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-31

  Huang, Andrew Chih Wei ^a   Shyu, Bai Chuang ^b   Hsiao, Sigmund ^c   Chen, Tsung Chieh ^b   He, Alan Bo Han ^a  

^a FO GUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear conditioning; Fos immunohistochemical staining; Spontaneous recovery

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84867042582     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.09.024     Document Type: Article

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