Persistent Sodium Current Is a Nonsynaptic Substrate for Long-Term Associative Memory

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1221-1226

  Nikitin, Eugeny S ^a,b   Vavoulis, Dimitris V ^a,c   Kemenes, Ildikó ^a   Marra, Vincenzo ^a   Pirger, Zsolt ^a,d   Michel, Maximilian ^a   Feng, Jianfeng ^c   O'Shea, Michael ^a   Benjamin, Paul R ^a   Kemenes, György ^a  

^a School of Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d BALATON LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LYMNAEA; MEMORY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; LYMNAEA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMORY; NEURONS; SODIUM;

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 49649124032     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.030     Document Type: Article

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