Learning and memory deficits upon TAU accumulation in Drosophila mushroom body neurons

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 277-287

  Mershin, Andreas ^a   Pavlopoulos, Elias ^a,b   Fitch, Olivia ^a   Braden, Brittany C ^a   Nanopoulos, Dimitri V ^a,c,d   Skoulakis, Efthimios M C ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (Greece)

^c HOUSTON ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; LEARNING DISORDER; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEMORY DISORDER; MICROTUBULE; MUSHROOM; MUTATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TAUOPATHY; VERTEBRATE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHEMORECEPTORS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DROSOPHILA; LEARNING DISORDERS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MUSHROOM BODIES; NEURONS; SMELL; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 2542590202     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.70804     Document Type: Article

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