Impaired trace fear conditioning and diminished ERK1/2 phosphorylation in the dorsal hippocampus of adult rats administered alcohol as neonates

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 187-198

  DuPont, Caitlin M ^a   Coppola, Jennifer J ^a   Kaercher, Roxanne M ^a   Lindquist, Derick H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERK1 2; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Hippocampus; NMDA receptor; Trace fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEAR; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FREEZING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; FEAR; FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84921438953     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035989     Document Type: Article

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