Todd C. Sacktor
Distinguished Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology
Suny Downstate Medical Center
United States of America
Biography
Todd C. Sacktor is Research Professor in the department of Physiology and Pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, United States of America.
Research Interest
PKMζ, a unique, constitutively active isoform of protein kinase C (PKC), is the first identified component of the core mechanism of long-term memory storage.
Publications
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Pastalkova E, Serrano P, Pinkhasova D, Wallace E, Fenton AA, et al. (2006) Storage of spatial information by the maintenance mechanism of LTP. Science 313: 1141-1144.
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Kelly MT, Crary JF, Sacktor TC (2007) Regulation of protein kinase Mζ synthesis by multiple kinases in long-term potentiation. J Neurosci 27: 3439-3444.
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Shema R, Sacktor TC, Dudai Y (2007) Rapid erasure of long-term memory associations in the cortex by an inhibitor of PKMζ. Science 317: 951-953.
