Timed and targeted differential regulation of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and anti-NOS genes by reward conditioning leading to long-term memory formation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1188-1192

  Korneev, Sergei A ^a   Straub, Volko ^a   Kemenes, Ildikó ^a   Korneeva, Elena I ^a   Ott, Swidbert R ^a   Benjamin, Paul R ^a   O'Shea, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; CGC; Gene expression; Long term memory; Lymnaea; Mollusk; NOS; Pseudogene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN GANGLION; CONDITIONING; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FEEDING; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE TARGETING; GIANT CELL; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LYMNAEA; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOLLUSC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOGENE; REWARD; TRAINING; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LYMNAEA; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PENTANOLS; PSEUDOGENES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REWARD; RNA, ANTISENSE; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 13944276686     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4671-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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