The neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms underlying delay and trace eyeblink conditioning in mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 278, Issue , 2015, Pages 307-314

  Yang, Yi ^a   Lei, Chen ^a   Feng, Hua ^a   Sui, Jian feng ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DEC; Eyeblink conditioning; Mice; Molecular mechanisms; Neural circuitry; TEC

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE DELTA; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CEREBELLAR PURKINJE CELL SPECIFIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR DELTA2; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GLIA MATURATION FACTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOLIPASE C BETA4; PROTEIN KINASE C DELTA; SYNAPTOBREVIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONNECTOME; DELAY EYEBLINK CONDITIONING; EYELID REFLEX; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; TRACE EYEBLINK CONDITIONING; ANIMAL; BLINKING; LEARNING; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; TIME;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, EYELID; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSENCEPHALON; REFLEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908439368     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.10.006     Document Type: Review

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