Activation of BDNF signaling prevents the return of fear in female mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 237-240

  Baker Andresen, Danay ^a   Flavell, Charlotte R ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Bredy, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7,8 DIHYDROXYFLAVONE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EXONS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FLAVONES; MICE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84877868707     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.029520.112     Document Type: Article

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