Genetic dissection of memory for associative and non-associative learning in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 210-223

  Lau, H L ^a,b   Timbers, T A ^a,b   Mahmoud, R ^a   Rankin, C H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Context conditioning; CREB; Habituation; Long term memory; Mechanosensation; NMDA receptor; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOSENSITIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITUATION; HYPOTHESIS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NERVE PROJECTION; NON ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASTE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; INTERNEURONS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SMELL; TASTE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84874168792     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00863.x     Document Type: Article

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