From: Ian Goddard (Ian@goddard.net)
Date: Wed Dec 29 1999 - 21:49:00 MST
FASEB J 1991 Apr;5(7):2061-7
Short-term and long-term memory in single cells.
Morimoto BH, Koshland DE Jr
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University
of California, Berkeley 94720.
Many approaches have been used to study short- and
long-term memory. Bacteria detect chemical gradients
using a memory obtained by the combination of a fast
excitation process and a slow adaptation process. This
model system, which has the advantages of extensive
genetic and biochemical information, shows no features
of long-term memory. To study long-term memory, neural
cell line systems have been developed that exhibit two
phenomena associated with learning and memory, habituation
and potentiation. The expression of these phenomena in
clonal cell lines, devoid of synaptic connections, makes
it possible to study the biochemical and molecular
mechanisms that contribute to short-term and long-term memory.
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