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Science 5 June 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3936, pp. 1234 - 1236
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3936.1234
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Extinction in Goldfish: Facilitation by Intracranial Injection of RNA from Brains of Extinguished Donors

Willim G. Braud 1

1 Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77004

Extracts rich in RNA were prepared from the brains of goldfish that had acquired and then extinguished a light-signaled avoidance to shock in an aquatic shuttle-box. Recipient fish injected intracranially with such extracts extinguished the response significantly faster than those injected with extracts prepared from brains of naive donors.

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