Cholinergic neuronal lesions in the medial septum and vertical limb of the diagonal bands of Broca induce contextual fear memory generalization and impair acquisition of fear extinction

Hippocampus

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 718-726

  Knox, Dayan ^a   Keller, Samantha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Basal forebrain; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Recall

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAPSULA INTERNA; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEAR; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS BASALIS MAGNOCELLULARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; TRAINING; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM OF BRAIN;

EID: 84952705816     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22553     Document Type: Article

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