Short- and long-term plasticity of the hippocampus to nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex pathways in the rat, in vivo

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1603-1611

  Mulder, A B ^a,b   Arts, M P M ^a   Lopes Da Silva, F H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Limbic system; Long term potentiation; Paired pulse facilitation; Single unit

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0030837055     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb01518.x     Document Type: Article

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