Synapse restructuring associated with the maintenance phase of hippocampal long-term potentiation

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 368, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 413-423

  Geinisman, Yuri ^a   Detoledo Morrell, Leyla ^b   Morrell, Frank ^b   Persina, Inna S ^a   Beatty, Michael A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

double disector; rat dentate gyrus; synapse ultrastructure; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0029937619     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960506)368:3<413::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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