Chronic stress enhanced fear memories are associated with increased amygdala zif268 mRNA expression and are resistant to reconsolidation

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 120, Issue , 2015, Pages 61-68

  Hoffman, Ann N ^a,c   Parga, Alejandro ^a,b   Paode, Pooja R ^a   Watterson, Lucas R ^a   Nikulina, Ella M ^a,b   Hammer, Ronald P ^a,b   Conrad, Cheryl D ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Chronic stress; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; MTOR; PTSD; Rapamycin; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA; RAPAMYCIN; EGR1 PROTEIN, RAT;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; FEAR; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84925002426     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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