Ultrastructural analysis reveals avoidance conditioning to induce a transient increase in hippocampal dentate spine density in the 6 hour post- training period of consolidation

Neuroscience

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 607-613

  O'Malley, A ^a   O'Connell, C ^a   Regan, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Axospinous synapses; Disector; Passive avoidance; Rodent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; AXONS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032483136     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00178-X     Document Type: Article

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