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SUBMITTER: Park S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4973267 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Park Sungmo S Lee Junuk J Park Kyungjoon K Kim Jeongyeon J Song Beomjong B Hong Ingie I Kim Jieun J Lee Sukwon S Choi Sukwoo S
Scientific reports 20160804
Various auditory tones have been used as conditioned stimuli (CS) for fear conditioning, but researchers have largely neglected the effect that different types of auditory tones may have on fear memory processing. Here, we report that at lateral amygdala (LA) synapses (a storage site for fear memory), conditioning with different types of auditory CSs (2.8 kHz tone, white noise, FM tone) recruits distinct forms of long-term potentiation (LTP) and inserts calcium permeable AMPA receptor (CP-AMPAR) ...[more]