Melatonin impaired acquisition but not expression of contextual fear in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 552, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-14

  Yang, Zehua ^a   Li, Changqi ^b   Huang, Fulian ^a  

^a Yiyang Medical College   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fear condition; Fear expression; Melatonin; Rats

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FREEZING; HABITUATION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING;

AC-PKA; ADENYLYL CYCLASE-PROTEIN KINASE A; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVA; CONDITIONED STIMULUS; CS; FEAR CONDITION; FEAR EXPRESSION; I.P.; INTRAPERITONEALLY; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LTP; MELATONIN; RATS; UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS; US;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MALE; MELATONIN; MENTAL RECALL; RATS;

EID: 84884335103     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.07.025     Document Type: Article

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