Long- but not medium-term retention of olfactory memories in honeybees is impaired by actinomycin D and anisomycin

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2742-2745

  Wüstenberg, Daniel ^a   Gerber, Bertram ^a   Menzel, Randolf ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Long term memory; Medium term memory; Memory phases; Protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

ANISOMYCIN; DACTINOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; HONEYBEE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; ANIMAL; BEE; DRUG EFFECT; LONG TERM MEMORY; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANISOMYCIN; BEES; DACTINOMYCIN; MEMORY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032129775     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00319.x     Document Type: Article

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