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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2014

Contextual and cued fear conditioning test using a video analyzing system in mice.

Hirotaka Shoji, Keizo Takao, Satoko Hattori, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers.

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94citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

94 citing papers in PubMed, 146 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hirotaka ShojiDivision of Systems Medical Science, Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University; Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology (CREST).
Keizo TakaoJapan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology (CREST); Center for Genetic Analysis of Behavior, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences.
Satoko HattoriDivision of Systems Medical Science, Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University; Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology (CREST).
Tsuyoshi MiyakawaDivision of Systems Medical Science, Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University; Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology (CREST); Center for Genetic Analysis of Behavior, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences; miyakawa@fujita-hu.ac.jp.
Fujita Health University · JPNational Institute for Physiological Sciences · JPNational Institutes of Natural Sciences · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The contextual and cued fear conditioning test is one of the behavioral tests that assesses the ability of mice to learn and remember an association between environmental cues and aversive experiences. In this test, mice are placed into a conditioning chamber and are given parings of a conditioned stimulus (an auditory cue) and an aversive unconditioned stimulus (an electric footshock). After a delay time, the mice are exposed to the same conditioning chamber and a differently shaped chamber with presentation of the auditory cue. Freezing behavior during the test is measured as an index of fear memory. To analyze the behavior automatically, we have developed a video analyzing system using the ImageFZ application software program, which is available as a free download at http://www.mouse-phenotype.org/. Here, to show the details of our protocol, we demonstrate our procedure for the contextual and cued fear conditioning test in C57BL/6J mice using the ImageFZ system. In addition, we validated our protocol and the video analyzing system performance by comparing freezing time measured by the ImageFZ system or a photobeam-based computer measurement system with that scored by a human observer. As shown in our representative results, the data obtained by ImageFZ were similar to those analyzed by a human observer, indicating that the behavioral analysis using the ImageFZ system is highly reliable. The present movie article provides detailed information regarding the test procedures and will promote understanding of the experimental situation.

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AnimalsBehavior, AnimalConditioning, ClassicalFearImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLearningMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLSoftwareVideo Recording

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PMID24637495
PMCPMC4122439
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