Age-related change in short-term synaptic plasticity intrinsic to excitatory striatal synapses

Synapse

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-68

  Ou, Xiaorong ^a   Buckwalter, Galen ^a   McNeill, Thomas H ^a   Walsh, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmentation; Calcium; Dendrites; GABA; Paired pulse; Synaptic depression

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030743896     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199709)27:1<57::AID-SYN6>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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