Article
Sequential use of mushroom body neuron subsets during drosophila odor memory processing.
Neuron - 4 Jan 2007
Krashes Michael J, Keene Alex C, Leung Benjamin, Armstrong J Douglas, Waddell Scott
Abstract excerpt
Drosophila mushroom bodies (MB) are bilaterally symmetric multilobed brain structures required for olfactory memory. Previous studies suggested that neurotransmission from MB neurons is only required for memory retrieval. Our unexpected observation that Dorsal Paired Medial (DPM) neurons, which project only to MB neurons, are required during memory storage but not during acquisition or retrieval, led us to...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Avoidance Learning
- Drosophila
- Electric Stimulation
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Memory
- Mushroom Bodies
- Mutation
- Nerve Net
- Neural Pathways
- Neurons
- Odorants
- Smell
- Synaptic Transmission
