Microinjection of Valproic Acid into the Ventrolateral Orbital Cortex Enhances Stress-Related Memory Formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Yan ^a   Xing, Bo ^b   Dang, Yong Hui ^a   Qu, Chao Ling ^a   Zhu, Feng ^a   Yan, Chun Xia ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Xi'an Mental Health Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG RESEARCH; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FRONTAL LOBE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84871912114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052698     Document Type: Article

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