Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-3-15
pubmed:abstractText
In both humans and animals, the hippocampus is critical to memory across modalities of information (e.g., spatial and nonspatial memory) and plays a critical role in the organization and flexible expression of memories. Recent studies have advanced our understanding of cellular basis of hippocampal function, showing that N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in area CA1 are required in both the spatial and nonspatial domains of learning. Here we examined whether CA1 NMDA receptors are specifically required for the acquisition and flexible expression of nonspatial memory. Mice lacking CA1 NMDA receptors were impaired in solving a transverse patterning problem that required the simultaneous acquisition of three overlapping odor discriminations, and their impairment was related to an abnormal strategy by which they failed to adequately sample and compare the critical odor stimuli. By contrast, they performed normally, and used normal stimulus sampling strategies, in the concurrent learning of three nonoverlapping concurrent odor discriminations. These results suggest that CA1 NMDA receptors play a crucial role in the encoding and flexible expression of stimulus relations in nonspatial memory.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-10197901, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-10458163, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-10700255, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-10719900, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-2610913, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-2765175, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-3760943, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-7088155, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-7619311, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-7643218, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-8538790, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-8673408, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-8942963, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-8980238, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-9192700, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-9219696, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-9368938, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-9454867, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-9635216, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/commentcorrection/11248114-9733185
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
98
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3543-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
CA1-specific N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor knockout mice are deficient in solving a nonspatial transverse patterning task.
pubmed:affiliation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Center for Cancer Research, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't