Open AccessRepeated unpredictable stress blunts alcohol-induced memory deficit in adolescent rat
Author(s) -
Ratna Sircar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuroreport/neuroreport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.607
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1473-558X
pISSN - 0959-4965
DOI - 10.1097/wnr.0000000000001519
Subject(s) - alcohol , conditioning , psychology , ethanol , hippocampus , saline , affect (linguistics) , fear conditioning , freezing behavior , developmental psychology , medicine , neuroscience , chemistry , amygdala , biochemistry , communication , statistics , mathematics
There exists a complex interaction between alcohol and stress on brain and behavior. Alcohol and stress are both known to affect memory. Whether stress and alcohol together can modulate memory functions in adolescent rats is not known. In the present study, effects of repeated unpredictable stress (RUPS) on contextual fear conditioning, a hippocampus-related memory function, were investigated in alcohol-treated adolescent rats.