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  • Title: [Mechanisms of enkephalin action on learning and memory processes].
    Author: Kruglikov RI, Chippens GI, Getsova VM, Iushin VA, Mats VN.
    Journal: Nauchnye Doki Vyss Shkoly Biol Nauki; 1984; (12):45-9. PubMed ID: 6335051.
    Abstract:
    The influence of enkephalin on the processes of elaboration and preservation of the defensive conditioned reflexes of bilateral avoidance (CRBA) and conditioned reflexes of passive avoidance (CRPA) in intact rats and animals with changed functional state of serotoninergic system of the brain has been examined. Injection of enkephalin in dose of 10 mkg to intact animals accelerated the elaboration of CRBA not influencing in this case their preservation, but deeply disturbed the CRPA preservation. The excess of serotonin in the brain created by means of 5-oxytryptophan fully prevented the acceleration of CRBA elaboration by enkephalin under the usual conditions. Injection of enkephalin at the background of serotonin lowering and raising in the brain favoured CRBA preservation. Under the enkephalin influence the inclusion of [3H]tyrosine and [14C]lisine in water-soluble and water-insoluble proteins of different cerebral structures lowered. The obtained data testify to participation of serotoninergic system and brain proteins in the mechanisms of enkephalin action to the processes of learning and memory.
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