Experience-Dependent Gene Expression in the Rat Hippocampus after Spatial Learning: A Comparison of the Immediate-Early GenesArc, c-fos, and zif268

Table 1.

Correlations between behavioral measures and hippocampal IEG RNA levels

Measure IEG RNA Rsvalue
Spatial task Cued task Both tasks
Last three trials Arc −0.76 0.18 −0.32
zif268 −0.58 0.13 −0.14
c-fos −0.49 0.12 −0.09
All six trials Arc −0.55 −0.21 −0.26
zif268 −0.36 0.22 −0.03
c-fos −0.26 0.39 0.10
  • The Spearman correlation coefficients are given; the comparison significant at p < 0.05 is indicated in bold font.

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 21 no. 14 5089-5098
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