The effect of chronic corticosterone on fear learning and memory depends on dose and the testing protocol

Neuroscience

Volumn 289, Issue , 2015, Pages 324-333

  Marks, W N ^a   Fenton, E Y ^a   Guskjolen, A J ^a   Kalynchuk, L E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Behavior; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; HORMONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEARING;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HORMONES; MALE; MEMORY; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84921976193     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.01.011     Document Type: Article

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