Ex vivo dissection of optogenetically activated mPFC and hippocampal inputs to neurons in the basolateral amygdala: Implications for fear and emotional memory

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Hübner, Cora ^a,b   Bosch, Daniel ^a   Gall, Andrea ^a   Lüthi, Andreas ^c   Ehrlich, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioned fear; Hippocampus; Medial prefrontal cortex; Optogenetics

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; CHANNELRHODOPSIN; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL MEMORY; EX VIVO STUDY; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; FEAR; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84897008844     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00064     Document Type: Article

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