Region-specific Roles of Long-term Memory Formation (1 of 2) (IMAGE)
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Image showing memory engram cells (green and red) crucial for permanent memory storage, in the prefrontal cortex of a mouse. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 7, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Kitamura at RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Engrams and circuits crucial for systems consolidation of a memory."
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Takashi Kitamura, Tonegawa lab
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