Hippocampal hyperexcitability underlies enhanced fear memories in TgNTRK3, a panic disorder mouse model

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 15259-15271

  Santos, Mónica ^a,b,c   D'Amico, Davide ^a,b,c   Spadoni, Ornella ^a,b,c   Amador Arjona, Alejandro ^d   Stork, Oliver ^e   Dierssen, Mara ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^d BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; IFENPRODIL; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; TIAGABINE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PANIC; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; VISUAL MEMORY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GABA AGONISTS; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GUANYLATE KINASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NIPECOTIC ACIDS; PANIC DISORDER; PIPERIDINES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTOR, TRKC; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84884194819     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2161-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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