Contextual and cued fear conditioning test using a video analyzing system in mice

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 85, 2014, Pages

  Shoji, Hirotaka ^a,b   Takao, Keizo ^b,c   Hattori, Satoko ^a,b   Miyakawa, Tsuyoshi ^a,b,c  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior; Contextual fear; Cued fear; Fear; ImageFZ program; Issue 85; Learning; Memory; Mouse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893542208     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/50871     Document Type: Article

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