Manipulating a “cocaine engram” in mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 42, 2014, Pages 14115-14127

  Hsiang, Hwa Lin Liz ^a,b,c   Epp, Jonathan R ^a,b,c   van den Oever, Michel C ^a,b,c,e   Yan, Chen ^a,b,c   Rashid, Asim J ^a,b,c   Insel, Nathan ^a,b,c   Ye, L ^d   Niibori, Yosuke ^a,b,c   Deisseroth, Karl ^d   Frankland, Paul W ^a,b,c   Josselyn, Sheena A ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cocaine; Conditioning; Memory; Place preference

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CLOZAPINE N OXIDE; COCAINE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CREB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COCAINE CUE ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TEST; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; MRNA EXPRESSION ASSAY; NONHUMAN; STEREOMETRY; TRAINING; VIRUS INFECTION; 129 MOUSE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CONDITIONING; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 84907969842     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3327-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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