RNA interference in hippocampus demonstrates opposing roles for CREB and PP1α in contextual and temporal long-term memory

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-329

  Peters, M ^a,b   Bletsch, M ^a   Catapano, R ^a   Zhang, X ^a,c   Tully, T ^a,b   Bourtchouladze, R ^a,d  

^a Helicon Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

^b DART NEUROSCIENCE LLC   (United States)

^c CELGENE CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Cognizance Consulting Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual fear conditioning; Contextual memory; CREB; Hippocampus; Long term memory; PP1; RNA interference; SiRNA; Temporal memory; Trace fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT GENE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DOWN-REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

MUS;

EID: 65249089750     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2009.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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