Increased density of multiple-head dendritic spines on medium-sized spiny neurons of the striatum in rats reared in a complex environment

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-96

  Comery, Thomas A ^a   Stamoudis, Catherine X ^a   Irwin, Scott A ^a   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITIC SPINE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REARING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030239159     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.0049     Document Type: Article

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