How nitric oxide helps update memories

Elife. 2020 Jan 8:9:e53832. doi: 10.7554/eLife.53832.

Abstract

Some dopaminergic neurons release both dopamine and nitric oxide to increase the flexibility of olfactory memories.

Keywords: D. melanogaster; associative learning; cotransmitter; dopamine; memory dynamics; mushroom body; neuroscience; nitric oxide.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Dopaminergic Neurons*
  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Memory
  • Mushroom Bodies*
  • Nitric Oxide
  • Smell

Substances

  • Nitric Oxide