Neural Plasticity
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 595282, 8 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/595282
The Role of the Entorhinal Cortex in Extinction: Influences of Aging
1Centro de Memória, Instituto de Pesquisas Biomédicas, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Avenue Ipiranga 6690, 2nd floor, 90610-000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
2Centro Universitário IPA, Rua Cel. Joaquim Pedro Salgado 80, 90420-060 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
3Departamento de Fisiologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Paraguay 2155, 7th floor, 1121 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Received 2 January 2008; Accepted 23 May 2008
Academic Editor: Min Jung
Copyright © 2008 Lia R. M. Bevilaqua et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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