Entorhinal cortex contribution to contextual fear conditioning extinction and reconsolidation in rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 110, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-71

  Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioned freezing; Hippocampus; Memory consolidation; TTX inactivation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EMOTION; FEAR; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EMOTIONS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84896297550     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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