Short-term synaptic plasticity in the visual cortex during development

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 640-646

  Ramoa, Ary S ^a   Sur, Mriganka ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029799437     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/6.4.640     Document Type: Article

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