Impaired fear extinction learning in adult heterozygous BDNF knock-out mice

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 103, Issue , 2013, Pages 34-38

  Psotta, Laura ^a   Lessmann, Volkmar ^b   Endres, Thomas ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Fear conditioning; Fear extinction

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BDNF GENE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HETEROZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

EID: 84877352263     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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