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Nature Neuroscience 11, 527 - 528 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0508-527
How I learned to stop worrying and love calcineurin
Carlos Balet Sindreu1 & Daniel R Storm1
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The authors are at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
e-mail: dstorm@u.washington.edu
Abstract
Many kinases have been implicated in memory formation, but a new study suggests that a phosphatase, calcineurin, is important for the long-lasting nature of emotional memories by making them resistant to extinction.
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