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- Title
Opioid receptors regulate the extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning.
- Authors
McNally, Gavan P; Westbrook, R Frederick
- Abstract
Rats received a single pairing of an auditory conditioned stimulus (CS) with a footshock unconditioned stimulus (US). The fear (freezing) that had accrued to the CS was then extinguished. Injection of naloxone prior to this extinction significantly impaired the development of extinction. This impairment was mediated by opioid receptors in the brain and was not observed when naloxone was injected after extinction training. Finally, an injection of naloxone on test failed to reinstate extinguished responding that had already accrued to the CS. These experiments show that opioid receptors regulate the development, but not the expression, of fear extinction and are discussed with reference to the roles of opioid receptors in US processing, memory, and appetitive motivation.
- Publication
Behavioral neuroscience, 2003, Vol 117, Issue 6, p1292
- ISSN
0735-7044
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1292