Renewal of extinguished fear activates ventral hippocampal neurons projecting to the prelimbic and infralimbic cortices in rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 134, Issue , 2016, Pages 38-43

  Wang, Qian ^a   Jin, Jingji ^a   Maren, Stephen ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear; Infralimbic; Prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic; Rat; Renewal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; STIMULUS; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYTOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84963704977     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.04.002     Document Type: Article

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