La importancia de los receptores AMPA para la plasticidad sináptica del hipocampo pero no para el aprendizaje

D Zamanillo1, R Sprengel, O Hvalby

  • 1Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 12, 1999
PubMed
Resumen

Los ratones que carecían de la subunidad GluR-A del receptor AMPA mostraron un desarrollo normal, pero un deterioro de la potenciación hipocampal a largo plazo (LTP). El aprendizaje espacial no se vio afectado, lo que sugiere una dicotomía entre la LTP y la adquisición de memoria.

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