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Biochemical processes of memory are reflected in the changes of thresholds and latency of action potentials in responses of neurons to a stimulus, the biological significance of which changes as a result of learning. These processes are weakly reflected in the frequency characteristics of peak activity.
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Introduction into the neuron of a surplus amount of nucleoside diphosphate, CDP and UDP, makes the participation of the neuron in the process of habituation impossible; a mixture of four nucleoside disphosphates (CDP + UDP + ADP + GDP) does not have this effect.
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These data lead to the hypothesis that the learning process is linked to nontemplate RNA synthesis.
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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 284–291, March–April, 1983.
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Tsitolovskii, L.E., Kraevskii, A.A. Possible dependence of learning on nontemplate RNA synthesis in neurons. Neurosci Behav Physiol 14, 121–127 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01185217
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