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ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)

A role for Synapsin in associative learning: the Drosophila larva as a study case.

Birgit Michels, Sören Diegelmann, Hiromu Tanimoto, Isabell Schwenkert, Erich Buchner, Bertram Gerber

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Article in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Birgit MichelsUniversity of Würzburg, Biocenter, Am Hubland, Department of Genetics and Neurobiology, D 970 74 Würzburg, Germany.
Sören Diegelmann
Hiromu Tanimoto
Isabell Schwenkert
Erich Buchner
Bertram Gerber
University of Würzburg · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synapsins are evolutionarily conserved, highly abundant vesicular phosphoproteins in presynaptic terminals. They are thought to regulate the recruitment of synaptic vesicles from the reserve pool to the readily-releasable pool, in particular when vesicle release is to be maintained at high spiking rates. As regulation of transmitter release is a prerequisite for synaptic plasticity, we use the fruit fly Drosophila to ask whether Synapsin has a role in behavioral plasticity as well; in fruit flies, Synapsin is encoded by a single gene (syn). We tackled this question for associative olfactory learning in larval Drosophila by using the deletion mutant syn(97CS), which had been backcrossed to the Canton-S wild-type strain (CS) for 13 generations. We provide a molecular account of the genomic status of syn(97CS) by PCR and show the absence of gene product on Western blots and nerve-muscle preparations. We found that olfactory associative learning in syn(97CS) larvae is reduced to approximately 50% of wild-type CS levels; however, responsiveness to the to-be-associated stimuli and motor performance in untrained animals are normal. In addition, we introduce two novel behavioral control procedures to test stimulus responsiveness and motor performance after "sham training." Wild-type CS and syn(97CS) perform indistinguishably also in these tests. Thus, larval Drosophila can be used as a case study for a role of Synapsin in associative learning.

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AnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedAssociation LearningBlotting, WesternDrosophilaLarvaMutationPresynaptic TerminalsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSynapsinsSynapsins

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PMID15930500
PMCPMC1142449
OpenAlexW2056785478

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