Article
Aging specifically impairs amnesiac-dependent memory in Drosophila.
Neuron - 4 Dec 2003
Tamura Takuya, Chiang Ann-Shyn, Ito Naomi, Liu Hsin-Ping, Horiuchi Junjiro, Tully Tim, Saitoe Minoru
Abstract excerpt
Age-related memory impairment (AMI) is observed in many species. However, it is uncertain whether AMI results from a specific or a nonspecific decay in memory processing. In Drosophila, memory acquired after a single olfactory conditioning paradigm has three distinct phases: short-term memory (STM), middle-term memory (MTM), and longer-lasting anesthesia-resistant memory (ARM). Here, we demonstrate that...
Topics
- Aging
- Amnesia
- Animals
- Avoidance Learning
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Memory
- Memory, Short-Term
- Mutation
- Neuropeptides
