Please Forgive me for taking your time to =Thank You=. ken collins
Robert M. Mihalek wrote:
> In article <365B5480.3A47 at one.net>
> Mike <roboart at one.net> writes:
>> > I saw a show on the Discovery Channel last week (Nov 15-Nov 20) about
> > memory.
> > It had a article on a doctor named "kandell" (not sure about spelling)
> > who was doing reseach on the krebs cycle in rodents. Apparently he was
> > having success in helping older rats improve their memory by using a
> > substance(drug) he developed. It was said that he intends to market the
> > substance as a pill in the next 10 years.
> > Also in a seperate part of the same show was a article about a man named
> > HM who had amnesia for the past 30-40 years after a surgery.
>> Dr. Eric Kandel at Columbia University in New York City is the man. The
> research in question is about a class of proteins called cyclic AMP
> response-element binding proteins: CREB. These proteins have been show
> to activate gene transcription in vertebrates and invertebrates
> following specific types of training procedures designed to induce
> long-term memory formation.
>> Bob Mihalek, Ph.D.
> University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
> Department of Anesthesiology/CCM
