Enhanced Histone Acetylation in the Infralimbic Prefrontal Cortex is Associated with Fear Extinction

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1287-1301

  Siddiqui, Sarfraj Ahmad ^a   Singh, Sanjay ^a   Ranjan, Vandana ^a   Ugale, Rajesh ^b   Saha, Sudipta ^a   Prakash, Anand ^a  

^a BABASAHEB BHIMRAO AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b RTM NAGPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Extinction; Fear; Histone acetylation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CENTROLATERAL AMYGDALA; CENTROMEDIAL AMYGDALA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ACETYLATION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACETYLATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; HISTONES; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 85009742315     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: 15736830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-017-0464-6     Document Type: Article

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