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. 2002 Dec;116(6):947-57.
doi: 10.1037//0735-7044.116.6.947.

Contextual and cued fear conditioning in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice: context discrimination and the effects of retention interval

Seth A Balogh  1 , Richard A Radcliffe, Sheree F Logue, Jeanne M Wehner
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Contextual and cued fear conditioning in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice: context discrimination and the effects of retention interval

Seth A Balogh et al. Behav Neurosci. 2002 Dec.

Abstract

Context discrimination and time course studies of contextual fear conditioning revealed strain differences between C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (D2) mice. Both strains discriminated contexts, but D2 mice exhibited less freezing in a shock-paired context. The strains did not differ immediately, or at 1 and 3 hr after contextual fear conditioning training. D2 mice showed less freezing at 15 min, 30 min, and 24 hr after training. B6 mice exhibited exaggerated generalized freezing and poor discrimination between the context and altered context 7-30 days after training. The acoustic startle response in B6 mice was also enhanced at 14 days after training. D2 mice did not show this pattern of generalized freezing. B6, but not D2, mice retained contextual memories for at least 60 days.

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