Maternal separation exaggerates spontaneous recovery of extinguished contextual fear in adult female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 269, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-80

  Xiong, Gui Jing ^a,b   Yang, Yuan ^c   Wang, Li Ping ^a   Xu, Lin ^a   Mao, Rong Rong ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contextual fear extinction; Female; Long term potentiation; Maternal separation; Spontaneous recovery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84899789400     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.04.015     Document Type: Article

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