Dynamics of dendritic spines in the mouse auditory cortex during memory formation and memory recall

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 18315-18320

  Moczulska, Kaja Ewa ^a   Tinter Thiede, Juliane ^a   Peter, Manuel ^a   Ushakova, Lyubov ^a   Wernle, Tanja ^a   Bathellier, Brice ^a   Rumpel, Simon ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Auditory fear conditioning; Learning; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DYNAMICS; FEAR; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY FORMATION; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECALL; SOUND; SURVIVAL RATE;

AUDITORY FEAR CONDITIONING; LEARNING; RECONSOLIDATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENDRITIC SPINES; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84887310343     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312508110     Document Type: Article

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