Involvement of cannabinoid receptors in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex of rats in fear learning, consolidation, retrieval and extinction

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 250, Issue , 2013, Pages 274-284

  Kuhnert, Sybille ^a   Meyer, Cora ^a   Koch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AM251; Cannabis; Fear potentiated startle; Medial prefrontal cortex; Memory; WIN 55,212 2

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BENZOXAZINES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHOLINES; NAPHTHALENES; PIPERIDINES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAZOLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1;

EID: 84879134579     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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