Medial prefrontal cortex is a crucial node of a rapid learning system that retrieves recent and remote memories

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-25

  Gonzalez, Carolina ^a   Kramar, Cecilia ^a   Garagoli, Fernando ^a   Rossato, Janine I ^b   Weisstaub, Noelia ^a,c   Cammarota, Martín ^b   Medina, Jorge H ^a,c  

^a Facultad de Medicina   (Argentina)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Inhibitory avoidance; Medial prefrontal cortex; Memory consolidation; Memory retrieval

Indexed keywords

ANISOMYCIN; EMETINE; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTEGRATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TISSUE SECTION; WORKING MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANISOMYCIN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; EMETINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCIMOL; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84877338265     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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