Synaptic recruitment during long-term potentiation at synapses of the medial perforant pathway in the dentate gyrus of the rat brain

Synapse

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 78-86

  Wang, Sabrina ^a   Wojtowicz, J Martin ^a   Atwood, Harold L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AMPA receptors; NMDA receptors; Perforant pathway; Synaptic recruitment

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030030409     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199601)22:1<78::AID-SYN9>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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