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

Table 2.

Correlations between IEG RNA levels within a structure

Structure IEG 1 IEG 2 Rs value
Hippocampus Arc zif268 0.67
Arc c-fos 0.46
zif268 c-fos 0.55
Entorhinal cortex Arc zif268 0.77
Arc c-fos 0.74
zif268 c-fos 0.64
Visual cortex Arc zif268 0.97
Arc c-fos 0.77
zif268 c-fos 0.75
  • The Spearman correlation coefficients are given; comparisons significant at p < 0.05 are indicated in bold font. The above values were calculated for all of the trained rats of Figures4 and 5 (n = 18 rats); the caged control rats were not included in the analyses. See Results for details.

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