Induction of multiple synapses by experience in the visual cortex of adult rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-20

  Jones, Theresa A ^a,d   Klintsova, Anna Y ^a   Kilman, Valerie L ^a,b   Sirevaag, Anita M ^a,c   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS; SYNAPTOSOME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031193958     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1997.3774     Document Type: Article

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