Increased voluntary ethanol consumption and c-fos expression in selected brain áreas induced by fear memory retrieval in ethanol withdrawn rats.

BERTOTTO, M.E.; BUSSOLINO, D.; MOLINA, V.A. AND I. MARTIJENA.

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Año: 2010 vol. 20 p. 568 - 568

font size="1" face="AdvTTae86113c"> Withdrawal from chronic ethanol administration facilitated the formation of contextual fear memory. The effect of fear memory retrieval on subsequent ethanol consumption, by employing a two-bottle free-choice procedure with either water or ethanol (2?8% v/v), was investigated in ethanol withdrawn rats. The effect of fear memory extinction with or without D-cycloserine (DCS, 5 mg/kg i.p.) on subsequent ethanol consumption was also evaluated. In addition, we examined c-Fos expression in