Dendritic spines: Cellular specializations imparting both stability and flexibility to synaptic function

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue , 1994, Pages 341-371

  Harris, Kristen M ^a   Kater, S B ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

hippocampus; learning; long term potentiation; memory; modeling; serial electron microscopy; synapses; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ASTROCYTE; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0028330166     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ne.17.030194.002013     Document Type: Review

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