Ultrastructural plasticity of excitatory synapses

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 77-93

  Muller, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glutamate transmission; Learning; Long term potentiation; Morphology; Postsynaptic density; Spines; Synaptic remodelling

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CELL ACTIVITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030722014     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.1997.8.2.77     Document Type: Review

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