Nonetheless, we expected that if CeA CRF secretion has a critical temporal involvement in facilitating the consolidation of contextual fear memory, then inhibition of CeA CRF using CRF ASO will likely impair contextual memory during the early, but not later, post-training periods
Nonetheless, we expected that if CeA CRF secretion has a critical temporal involvement in facilitating the consolidation of contextual fear memory, then inhibition of CeA CRF using CRF ASO will likely impair contextual memory during the early, but not later, post-training periods. Rats microinjected with CRF ASO into the CeA at 5-min (t17= 3.208,p< 0.01), 9-h (t13= 2.518,p< 0.05), and 24-h (t13= 2.513,p< 0.05) after training exhibited significantly lower levels of contextual freezing than their respective controls. CeA site-specific microinjections of CRF antisense oligonucleotides (CRF ASO) at several post-training time intervals. Rats microinjected with CRF ASO at post-training intervals up to 24-h subsequently exhibited significant impairments in contextual freezing retention in contrast Alvelestat to animals treated 96-h after training. To further establish the validity of the results, CeA fiber-sparing lesions…