Corticosterone-induced enhancement of memory and synaptic Arc protein in the medial prefrontal cortex

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 112, Issue , 2014, Pages 148-157

  McReynolds, Jayme R ^a   Holloway Erickson, Crystal M ^a   Parmar, Tulja U ^a   McIntyre, Christa K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance learning; BLA; Cortisol; Immediate early gene; Memory consolidation; Norepinephrine; Stress; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; PROPRANOLOL; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84901920388     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.02.007     Document Type: Article

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