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

Table 3.

Correlations between IEG RNA levels across brain structures

Structure 1 Structure 2 IEG RNA Rsvalue
Hippocampus Entorhinal cortex Arc 0.53
zif268 0.28
c-fos 0.54
Hippocampus Visual cortex Arc 0.40
zif268 0.26
c-fos 0.68
Entorhinal cortex Visual cortex Arc 0.45
zif268 0.58
c-fos 0.81
  • 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.

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