Albert Cardona<p>"A temporally restricted function of the dopamine receptor Dop1R2 during memory formation", Kaldun et al. 2025 (Sprecher lab).<br><a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/99368" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elifesciences.org/articles/993</span><span class="invisible">68</span></a></p><p>In Kenyon cells, "loss of dop1R2 from ab or a'b' block the ability of flies to display measurable forms of longer forms of memory"</p><p>In other words, a specific dopamine receptor is now associated with long-term memory in fruit flies, and its loss does not affect short-term memory.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuroscience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/dopamine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dopamine</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LearningAndMemory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LearningAndMemory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Drosophila" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drosophila</span></a></p>