Electrolytic lesion of the nucleus incertus retards extinction of auditory conditioned fear

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 247, Issue , 2013, Pages 201-210

  Pereira, C W ^a,b   Santos, F N ^a,b   Sanchez Perez A M ^a,d   Otero Garcia M ^a   Marchioro, M ^b   Ma, S ^c   Gundlach, A L ^c   Olucha Bordonau, F E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Electrolytic lesion; Extinction; Fear memory; Nucleus incertus; Relaxin 3

Indexed keywords

CALRETININ; RELAXIN 3;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEAR MEMORY; FOREBRAIN; FREEZING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS INCERTUS; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RELAXIN;

EID: 84876702894     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.03.025     Document Type: Article

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