Differential needs of zinc in the CA3 area of dorsal hippocampus for the consolidation of contextual fear and spatial memories

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Figure 1.

(A) Timeline of the experimental design from surgery to sacrifice of the animals for histology. Note that each behavioral procedure consists of a day training followed by memory test on the consecutive day. (WM) Water maze, (CFC) contextual fear conditioning. (B) Photograph of a frontal section of a mouse dorsal hippocampus stained with thionin. Injection sites can be seen at the level of the CA3 area on both hippocampi (white arrows). Black arrows indicate the position of guide cannulae.

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