Histamine infused into basolateral amygdala enhances memory consolidation of inhibitory avoidance

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1539-1545

  Benetti, Fernando ^a   Izquierdo, Ivan ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; histamine; histamine agonists and antagonists; imetit and SKF 91488; inhibitory avoidance; memory consolidation; thioperamide

Indexed keywords

2 (2 PYRIDYL)ETHYLAMINE; DIMAPRIT; HISTAMINE; IMETIT; MEPYRAMINE; RANITIDINE; THIOPERAMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DIMAPRIT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HISTAMINE; HISTAMINE AGONISTS; HISTAMINE ANTAGONISTS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84880520538     PISSN: 14611457     EISSN: 14695111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145712001514     Document Type: Article

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