A mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade in the CA1/CA2 subfield of the dorsal hippocampus is essential for long-term spatial memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3535-3544

  Blum, Sonja ^a   Moore, Anthony N ^a   Adams, Frank ^a   Dash, Pramod K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Long term memory; MAPK; Morris water maze; p38MAPK; PD098059

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; 4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 METHYLSULFINYLPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 0033135345     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-09-03535.1999     Document Type: Article

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