•  
  •  
 

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

cellular mechanisms, memory formation, developing brain, artificial cerebrospinal fluid, ACSF

College

Life Sciences

Department

Physiology and Developmental Biology

Abstract

Carrying out my research project with my mentor’s assistance has provided valuable experiences and important lessons. At the present time, however, my research has not produced the results we had anticipated. We had hoped to demonstrate that a certain receptor in the brain called transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) modulated memory formation in the developing brain by influencing a process known as long-term depression, or the weakening of a chemical connection between two brain cells. Although we have not yet produced statistically significant results, our observations indicate that we may simply need to conduct more experiments to acquire enough data and large enough sample sizes to reach statistical significance. Now that we have refined our techniques to more effectively acquire data, we hope to reach this point soon.

Download

Included in

Physiology Commons

Share

COinS