Prefrontal microcircuit underlies contextual learning after hippocampal loss

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 9938-9943

  Zelikowsky, Moriel ^a   Bissiere, Stephanie ^b   Hast, Timothy A ^a   Bennett, Rebecca Z ^a   Abdipranoto, Andrea ^c,d   Vissel, Bryce ^c,d   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Anxiety; Medial prefrontal cortex; Recovery of function

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; FEAR; GENE INDUCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE AMNESIA;

AMNESIA; ANXIETY; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84878988485     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301691110     Document Type: Article

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