Role of immediate-early genes in synaptic plasticity and neuronal ensembles underlying the memory trace

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN2016, 2016, Pages

  Minatohara, Keiichiro ^a   Akiyoshi, Mika ^a   Okuno, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arc; C fos; Immediate early gene; Memory trace; Neuronal ensemble; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

DESIGNER DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84957928351     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2015.00078     Document Type: Article

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