Olfactory learning in the rat pup: A model that may permit visualization of a mammalian memory trace

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1691-1697

  McLean, John H ^a   Harley, Carolyn W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

CREB; Learning model; Neonatal rat; Norepinephrine; Olfaction; Second messengers

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; RATS; SMELL;

EID: 4043131834     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000134988.51310.c3     Document Type: Review

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