Involvement of the insular cortex in the consolidation and expression of contextual fear conditioning

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2300-2307

  Alves, Fernando H F ^a   Gomes, Felipe V ^a   Reis, Daniel G ^a   Crestani, Carlos C ^b   Corrêa, Fernando M A ^a   Guimarães, Francisco S ^a   Resstel, Leonardo B M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autonomic system; Blood pressure; Freezing; Heart rate; Prefrontal cortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART RATE; INSULA; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AUTONOMIC SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; FREEZING; HEART RATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84880326143     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12210     Document Type: Article

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