Blockade of M2-like muscarinic receptors enhances long-term potentiation at corticostriatal synapses

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3020-3023

  Calabresi, Paolo ^a   Centonze, Diego ^a   Gubellini, Paolo ^a,b   Pisani, Antonio ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glutamate receptors; LTP; Methoctramine; Muscarinic receptors; Striatum

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; METHOCTRAMINE; MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR; OXOTREMORINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIAMINES; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M2; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032449497     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1998.00348.x     Document Type: Article

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