Pharmacological interference with glutamate re-uptake impairs long-term memory in the honeybee, Apis mellifera

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-53

  Maleszka, Ryszard ^a   Helliwell, Paul ^a   Kucharski, Robert ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Classical conditioning; EAAT; L trans 2, 4 pyrrolidine dicarboxylate; Mushroom bodies; Olfactory learning

Indexed keywords

2,4 PYRROLIDINEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; LONG TERM MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL; BEES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE INHIBITORS; PYRROLIDINES; SMELL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033825689     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00235-7     Document Type: Article

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