Synaptic targeting of double-projecting ventral CA1 hippocampal neurons to the medial prefrontal cortex and basal amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2017, Pages 4868-4882

  Kim, Woong Bin ^a   Cho, Jun Hyeong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; mPFC

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; FIRING RATE; GENE SILENCING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; C57BL MOUSE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 85018909270     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3579-16.2017     Document Type: Article

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