Sex and the facilitation of cued fear by prior contextual fear conditioning in rats

• Published in: Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) Vol. 31; no. 9; p. a054010
• Main Authors: Vazquez, Katherine, Cole, Kehinde E., Parsons, Ryan G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 01.09.2024
• Subjects: Animals; Conditioning, Classical - physiology; Cues; Electroshock; Fear - physiology; Fear conditioning; Female; Females; Freezing Reaction, Cataleptic - physiology; Male; Males; Rats; Rats, Long-Evans; Sex Characteristics; Time Factors; Tonic immobility

Previous studies have shown that the formation of new memories can be influenced by prior experience. This includes work using Pavlovian fear conditioning in rodents that has shown that an initial fear conditioning experience can become associated with and facilitate the acquisition of new fear memo...