One group of rats was trained on a discrimination task while another group received no training. Brain extract containing RNA was prepared from the brains of these rats and injected intracisternally into naive rats. The naive rats were then retrained on the original discrimination task. No differences were found between the performances of the tats injected with “trained” extract, “untrained” extract, or saline solution.
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