Morphological plasticity in dendritic spines of cultured hippocampal neurons

Neuroscience

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1005-1011

  Papa, M ^a,b   Segal, M ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Culture; Dendritic spines; Dil; Hippocampus; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; PICROTOXIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030000583     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00490-4     Document Type: Article

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