Does cAMP response element-binding protein have a pivotal role in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and hippocampus-dependent memory?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 6304-6314

  Balschun, Detlef ^a   Wolfer, David P ^b   Gass, Peter ^c,d   Mantamadiotis, Theo ^c,e   Welzl, Hans ^b   Schütz, Günther ^c   Frey, Julietta U ^a   Lipp, Hans Peter ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Ctrl Institute of Mental Health J5   (Germany)

^e PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; CREB; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Learning; LTD; LTP; Memory; Synaptic plasticity; Water maze

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TASTE AVERSION;

EID: 0037705997     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-15-06304.2003     Document Type: Article

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