Epac activation initiates associative odor preference memories in the rat pup

Learning and Memory

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 74-82

  Grimes, Matthew T ^a   Powell, Maria ^a   Gutierrez, Sandra Mohammed ^a   Darby King, Andrea ^a   Harley, Carolyn W ^b   McLean, John H ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; EXCHANGE PROTEIN DIRECTLY ACTIVATED BY CAMP; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 8-(4-CHLORO-PHENYLTHIO)-2'-O-METHYLADENOSINE-3'-5'-CYCLIC MONOPHOSPHATE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; EPAC PROTEIN, RAT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BETA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MITRAL CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ODOR PREFERENCE MEMORY; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TRAINING; AGONISTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; LEARNING; MEMORY; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FEMALE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; MALE; MEMORY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA;

EID: 84922245987     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.037101.114     Document Type: Article

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