Choline acetyltransferase mRNA plasticity with Pavlovian conditioning

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 95-99

  Oh, Justin D ^a,c   Edwards, Robert H ^b,d   Woolf, Nancy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LONG TERM MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SENSITIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030198582     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0119     Document Type: Article

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