Systemic or intra-prelimbic cortex infusion of prazosin impairs fear memory reconsolidation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 244, Issue , 2013, Pages 137-141

  Do Monte, Fabricio H ^a   Souza, Rimenez R ^a   Wong, Ting T ^b   Carobrez, Antonio de Padua ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory reconsolidation; Prazosin; Prelimbic cortex

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; PRAZOSIN;

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FEAR; FREEZING BEHAVIOR; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY MEMORY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; PRAZOSIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84874517382     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.01.031     Document Type: Article

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