Publication Date:
1989-04-14
Description:
A group of rats was trained to escape low-intensity shock in a shuttle-box test, while another group of yoked controls could not escape but was exposed to the same amount and regime of shock. After 1 week of training, long-term potentiation (LTP) was measured in vitro in hippocampal slices. Exposure to uncontrollable shock massively impaired LTP relative to exposure to the same amount and regime of controllable shock. These results provide evidence that controllability modulates plasticity at the cellular-neuronal level.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shors, T J -- Seib, T B -- Levine, S -- Thompson, R F -- HD02881/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- MH11936/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Apr 14;244(4901):224-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2704997" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Avoidance Learning
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Corticosterone/blood
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*Electroshock
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*Escape Reaction
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Hippocampus/*physiology
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Learning/physiology
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Male
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Memory/physiology
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*Neuronal Plasticity
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Rats
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Stress, Psychological/physiopathology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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