Reduction in spine density associated with long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus suggests a spine fusion-and-branching model of potentiation

Hippocampus

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 489-500

  Rusakov, Dmitri A ^a   Richter Levin, Gal ^b   Stewart, Michael G ^a   Bliss, T V P ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active membrane; Compartmental modeling; Dendritic spine; Golgi study; Morphological changes

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0030659099     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1997)7:5<489::AID-HIPO5>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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