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1: Science. 2007 Aug 17;317(5840):951-3.Click here to read Links
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Science. 2007 Aug 17;317(5840):883.

Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKM zeta.

Shema R, Sacktor TC, Dudai Y.

Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.

Little is known about the neuronal mechanisms that subserve long-term memory persistence in the brain. The components of the remodeled synaptic machinery, and how they sustain the new synaptic or cellwide configuration over time, are yet to be elucidated. In the rat cortex, long-term associative memories vanished rapidly after local application of an inhibitor of the protein kinase C isoform, protein kinase M zeta (PKMzeta). The effect was observed for at least several weeks after encoding and may be irreversible. In the neocortex, which is assumed to be the repository of multiple types of long-term memory, persistence of memory is thus dependent on ongoing activity of a protein kinase long after that memory is considered to have consolidated into a long-term stable form.

PMID: 17702943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]