Article
Exclusive consolidated memory phases in Drosophila.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 14 May 2004
Isabel Guillaume, Pascual Alberto, Preat Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Two types of consolidated memory have been described in Drosophila, anesthesia-resistant memory (ARM), a shorter-lived form, and stabilized long-term memory (LTM). Until now, it has been thought that ARM and LTM coexist. On the contrary, we show that LTM formation leads to the extinction of ARM. Flies devoid of mushroom body vertical lobes cannot form LTM, but spaced conditioning can still erase their ARM,...
Topics
- Adenylyl Cyclases
- Animals
- Conditioning, Psychological
- Cyclic AMP
- Drosophila
- Drosophila Proteins
- Genes, Insect
- Learning
- Memory
- Models, Biological
- Mushroom Bodies
- Mutation
- Neurons
- Neuropeptides
- Odorants
- Transgenes