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Black tea differs from green tea: it suppresses long-term memory formation in Lymnaea

Foods, such as Green tea (GT), containing the flavonol, (-)-Epicatechin (Epi), enhance the formation of long-term memory (LTM) when snails are operantly conditioned in that substance. That is, a single 0.5 h training session results in LTM; whereas similar training in pond water does not result in L...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Jack, de Freitas, Emily, Lukowiak, Ken
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2018.1491245
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description Foods, such as Green tea (GT), containing the flavonol, (-)-Epicatechin (Epi), enhance the formation of long-term memory (LTM) when snails are operantly conditioned in that substance. That is, a single 0.5 h training session results in LTM; whereas similar training in pond water does not result in LTM. It was of interest to determine if Black tea (BT), which is a more popular beverage than GT and which is derived from the same tea leaves, also enhances LTM formation. We found that BT, unlike GT, depressed homeostatic aerial respiratory behaviour and obstructed LTM formation. We used two different methods to determine if BT altered LTM formation and both procedures showed us that BT obstructed LTM formation. We conclude that BT obstructs LTM formation and depresses homeostatic aerial respiration
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spelling pubmed-61324302018-09-13 Black tea differs from green tea: it suppresses long-term memory formation in Lymnaea Zhang, Jack de Freitas, Emily Lukowiak, Ken Commun Integr Biol Short Communication Foods, such as Green tea (GT), containing the flavonol, (-)-Epicatechin (Epi), enhance the formation of long-term memory (LTM) when snails are operantly conditioned in that substance. That is, a single 0.5 h training session results in LTM; whereas similar training in pond water does not result in LTM. It was of interest to determine if Black tea (BT), which is a more popular beverage than GT and which is derived from the same tea leaves, also enhances LTM formation. We found that BT, unlike GT, depressed homeostatic aerial respiratory behaviour and obstructed LTM formation. We used two different methods to determine if BT altered LTM formation and both procedures showed us that BT obstructed LTM formation. We conclude that BT obstructs LTM formation and depresses homeostatic aerial respiration Taylor & Francis 2018-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6132430/ /pubmed/30214677 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2018.1491245 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2018.1491245
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