A Possible Role for Protein Synthesis, Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase, and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Long-Term Spatial Memory Retention in the Water Maze

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 805-815

  McGauran, Anne Marie T ^a,b   Moore, J Bernadette ^a   Madsen, Declan ^a   Barry, Daniel ^a   O'Dea, Shirley ^a   Mahon, Bernard P ^a   Commins, Sean ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

BDNF; ERK; hippocampus; memory consolidation; protein synthesis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 50849110187     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.4.805     Document Type: Article

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