Genetic Approaches to the Study of Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Storage

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 597-610

  Abel, Ted ^a   Kaplan, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCINEURIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); S6 KINASE;

APLYSIA; CALCIUM CURRENT; DNA MODIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FACILITATION; GENE EXPRESSION; KNOCKOUT GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0642336205     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1092852900018873     Document Type: Review

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