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Drosophila Passive Avoidance Behavior as a New Paradigm to Study Associative Aversive Learning
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Capítulos
- 00:04Introduction
- 00:57Preparation of Passive Avoidance Apparatus and Flies Preparation for Passive Avoidance Procedure
- 02:07Performing the First and Second Trials
- 03:32Results: Representative Results for Passive Avoidance Behavior Assay
- 05:35Conclusion
This work describes a simple behavioral paradigm that allows the analysis of aversive associative learning in adult fruit flies. The method is based on suppressing the innate negative geotaxis behavior due to the association formed between a specific environmental context and an electric shock.
