Heterosynaptic facilitation of tail sensory neuron synaptic transmission during habituation in tail-induced tail and siphon withdrawal reflexes of Aplysia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 4933-4948

  Stopfer, Mark ^a,b   Carew, Thomas J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplysia; habituation; heterosynaptic facilitation; homosynaptic depression; learning; memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; TAIL; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0029738392     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-16-04933.1996     Document Type: Article

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