Publication Date:
1978-01-20
Description:
Mice were trained in a passive (foot shock)avoidance task. When administered after training, the stimulants caffeine or nicotine blocked amnesia for the task that had been produced by injections of the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin given prior to training. With foot shock at a higher intensity, anisomycin did not produce amnesia by itself, but the administration of the depressants chloral hydrate or sodium phenobarbital after training did cause amnesia. Stimulants and depressants did not have an appreciable influence on the overall degree of protein synthesis inhibition produced by anisomycin. The results support the hypothesis that arousal after training is an important factor in the conversion of short-term to long-term memory.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Flood, J F -- Bennett, E L -- Orme, A E -- Rosenzweig, M R -- Jarvik, M E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Jan 20;199(4326):324-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/619461" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anisomycin/*pharmacology
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Avoidance Learning/*drug effects
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Brain/*drug effects
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Caffeine/pharmacology
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Chloral Hydrate/pharmacology
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Drug Interactions
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Male
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Memory/*drug effects
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Mice
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Nerve Tissue Proteins/biosynthesis
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Nicotine/pharmacology
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Phenobarbital/pharmacology
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Pyrrolidines/*pharmacology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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