Adult hippocampal neurogenesis modulates fear learning through associative and nonassociative mechanisms

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 32, 2015, Pages 11330-11345

  Seo, Dong Oh ^a   Carillo, Mary Ann ^b   Lim, Sean Chih Hsiung ^c   Tanaka, Kenji F ^d   Drew, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Anxiety; Dentate gyrus; Doublecortin; Fear conditioning; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT INFLAMMATORY FACTOR 1; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; GANCICLOVIR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRDU ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; X IRRADIATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; CONDITIONING; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; GANCICLOVIR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS;

EID: 84939166103     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0483-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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