Spatial memory extinction: A c-Fos protein mapping study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 260, Issue , 2014, Pages 101-110

  Mendez Couz M ^a   Conejo, N M ^a   Vallejo, G ^a   Arias, J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

C Fos; Extinction; Mammillary body; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DIENCEPHALON; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBCORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; WISTAR RAT;

AMYGDALA BASAL NUCLEUS; AMYGDALA CENTRAL NUCLEUS; AMYGDALA MEDIAL NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVA; BA; C-FOS; CA1D; CA1V; CA3D; CA3V; CE; CG; CINGULATE CORTEX; CONDITIONED STIMULUS; CONTROL NAÏVE GROUP; CORNU AMMONIS 1 OF THE DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; CORNU AMMONIS 1 OF THE VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; CORNU AMMONIS 3 OF THE DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; CORNU AMMONIS 3 OF THE VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; CS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DENTATE GYRUS OF THE DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; DENTATE GYRUS OF THE VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; DF; DGD; DGV; EX; EXR; EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION GROUP; EXTINCTION PLUS RETENTION PROBE GROUP; FAMILYWISE ERROR RATE; FWE; IEGS; IL; IMMEDIATE EARLY EXPRESSION GENE; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; LM; MAMMILLARY BODIES LATERAL NUCLEUS; MAMMILLARY BODIES MEDIAL NUCLEUS; MAMMILLARY BODY; ME; MM; MORRIS WATER MAZE; MWM; N; PBS; PBS SOLUTION CONTAINING TRITON; PBS-T; PHOSPHATE-BUFFERED SALINE; PL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL AGRANULAR CORTEX; RETROSPLENIAL GRANULAR CORTEX; RSA; RSG; SPATIAL MEMORY; UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS; US;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; DIENCEPHALON; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890730071     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.11.032     Document Type: Article

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