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Serotonin-mushroom body circuit modulating the formation of anesthesia-resistant memory in Drosophila.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Aug 2011
Lee Pei-Tseng, Lin Hsuan-Wen, Chang Yu-Hsuan, Fu Tsai-Feng, Dubnau Josh, Hirsh Jay, Lee Tzumin, Chiang Ann-Shyn
Abstract excerpt
Pavlovian olfactory learning in Drosophila produces two genetically distinct forms of intermediate-term memories: anesthesia-sensitive memory, which requires the amnesiac gene, and anesthesia-resistant memory (ARM), which requires the radish gene. Here, we report that ARM is specifically enhanced or inhibited in flies with elevated or reduced serotonin (5HT) levels, respectively. The requirement for 5HT was...
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