[24.05.2005]
Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cannabinoid-induced learning and memory impairments
Why does smoking marijuana impair learning and memory? Behavioral studies suggest that disruption of normal hippocampal function results in these deficits. In vitro, activation of cannabinoid receptors has been found to reduce neurotransmitter release below levels necessary to initiate long-term changes in synaptic intensity in the hippocampus. Cannabinoids reduce glutamate release via
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-protein-binding inhibition of calcium channels responsible for neurotransmitter release from hippocampal neurons. These mechanisms likely contribute to cannabinoid-induced learning and memory impairment
and
endogenous ligands of cannabinoid receptors.
cananbisnews.com
Comments:
05/30/2005
Kalkuta
It’s interesting about science, but not everyone knows such a vocabulary. Such things need to be explained to ordinary people in simple words
06/11/2005
Purity
Well, it might be useful to someone...future scientists, for example. %)
07/07/2006
Rouli
It's all fucked up!
It needs to be simpler!
And people will reach out!
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