Indistinguishable pattern of amygdala and hippocampus rewiring following tone or contextual fear conditioning in C57BL/6 mice

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Pignataro, Annabella ^a   Middei, Silvia ^a,b   Borreca, Antonella ^a   Ammassari Teule, Martine ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Contextual fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Spine density; Spine morphology; Tone fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; GOLGI STAIN; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 84887543293     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00156     Document Type: Article

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