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Flies put the buzz back into long-term-potentiation

Two new papers show that an atypical protein kinase C may mediate the maintenance of long-term potentiation in the mouse hippocampus and of associative memory in Drosophila.

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Figure 1: Role of PKM in LTP.

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Paulsen, O., Morris, R. Flies put the buzz back into long-term-potentiation. Nat Neurosci 5, 289–290 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0402-289

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