Complex roles of glutamate in the Gibbs-Ng model of one-trial aversive learning in the new-born chick

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-54

  Ng, K T ^a   O'Dowd, B S ^b   Rickard, N S ^a   Robinson, S R ^b   Gibbs, M E ^a   Rainey, C ^c   Zhao, W Q ^a   Sedman, G L ^c   Hertz, L ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Day old chicks; Glutamate; Glutamate receptors; Glutamine; Memory formation; Neurons; Passive avoidance learning

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; 6,7 DINITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID BETA HYDROXAMIC ACID; FLUOROACETIC ACID; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; METHIONINE SULFOXIMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CHICKEN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031053127     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0149-7634(95)00079-8     Document Type: Article

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