| Literature DB >> 30349111 |
Mu Zhou1, Zhihui Liu2,3, Maxwell D Melin2, Yi Han Ng2, Wei Xu2,4, Thomas C Südhof5,6.
Abstract
The formation and retrieval of conditioned fear memories critically depend on the amygdala. Here we identify an inhibitory projection from somatostatin-positive neurons in the central amygdala to parvalbumin-positive neurons in the zona incerta that is required for both recent and remote fear memories. Thus, the amygdala inhibitory input to parvalbumin-positive neurons in the zona incerta, a nucleus not previously implicated in fear memory, is an essential component of the fear memory circuitry.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30349111 PMCID: PMC7261007 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-018-0248-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Neurosci ISSN: 1097-6256 Impact factor: 24.884