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NMDA receptors and memory encoding

Richard G. M. Morris
- 01 Nov 2013 - 
- Vol. 74, pp 32-40
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How my then interest in long-term potentiation (LTP) as a model of memory enabled me to recognise the importance of Collingridge et al.'s discovery is laid out - and how the idea that NMDA receptor activation is essential for memory encoding, though not for storage, took time to develop and to be accepted.
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This article is published in Neuropharmacology.The article was published on 2013-11-01. It has received 234 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Synaptic plasticity & Long-term potentiation.

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Different components of conditioned food aversion memory.

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Mammillary body regulates state-dependent fear by alternating cortical oscillations

TL;DR: It is found that MK-801 enhanced delta oscillations in awake mice, representing a drug-induced brain state, in which fear memory could only be successfully retrieved when the same drug condition was presented, shining light on the neural mechanism underlying the fluctuation of memory retrieval and the role of MB in memory encoding and recall.
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Asymmetric Synthesis of the Two Enantiomers of β-Phosphorus-containing α-Amino Acids via Hydrophosphinylation and Hydrophosphonylation of Chiral Ni(II)-Complexes

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach for the asymmetric synthesis of β-phosphorus-containing α-amino acids was developed via the addition of secondary phosphine oxides and dialkyl phosphites to chiral Ni(II)-complexes of a dehydroalanine-Schiff base.
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