Dentate gyrus contributes to retrieval as well as encoding: Evidence from context fear conditioning, recall, and extinction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 26, 2017, Pages 6359-6371

  Bernier, Brian E ^a   Lacagnina, Anthony F ^a   Ayoub, Adam ^a   Shue, Francis ^a   Zemelman, Boris V ^a   Krasne, Franklin B ^b   Drew, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Dentate gyrus; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Memory

Indexed keywords

HALORHODOPSIN; SYNAPSIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEAR CONDITIONING TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; LEARNING; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DENTATE GYRUS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 85021312894     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3029-16.2017     Document Type: Article

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