Prefrontal dopamine regulates fear reinstatement through the downregulation of extinction circuits

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue JULY2015, 2015, Pages

  Hitora Imamura, Natsuko ^a,c   Miura, Yuki ^a   Teshirogi, Chie ^a   Ikegaya, Yuji ^a,b   Matsuki, Norio ^a   Nomura, Hiroshi ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b National Institute of Information and Communications Technology   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN C FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNTING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEPRESSION; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84940527236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.08274     Document Type: Article

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