Vasopressin/oxytocin-related peptides influence long-term memory of a passive avoidance task in the cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 240-247

  Bardou, Isabelle ^a   Leprince, Jérôme ^b   Chichery, Raymond ^a   Vaudry, Hubert ^b   Agin, Véronique ^b  

^a Groupe Mémoire et Plasticité Comportementale   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cephalopods; Cephalotocin; Consolidation processes; Long term memory; Neuropeptides; Octopressin; Oxytocin vasopressin superfamily; Passive avoidance learning

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOTOCIN; OCTOPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CEPHALOPOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTTLEFISH; FEMALE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOLLUSC; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FELYPRESSIN; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYTOCIN; PEPTIDE HORMONES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEPIA; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 77149175427     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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