Pharmacological dissociation of different forms of synaptic plasticity in the marine mollusc Aplysia

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 90, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 385-386

  Emptage, N J ^a,b   Mauelshagen, J ^a,b   Mercer, A ^a,b   Carew, T J ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aplysia; Long term memory; Non associative learning; Serotonin; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

CYPROHEPTADINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MODULATION; MOLLUSC; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030484063     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4257(97)87925-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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