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Jiali Xiong1, Anuradha Mehta2, Qiang Liu2

  • 1Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, U.S.A.

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La molécula mWAKE de la amígdala central es crucial para el aprendizaje del miedo y la memoria en ratones machos. Sus niveles disminuyen después del condicionamiento del miedo, lo que sugiere un papel en la modulación de la actividad de las neuronas CeA para la formación de la memoria.

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