The degree of potentiation is associated with synaptic number during the maintenance of long-term potentiation in the rat dentate gyms

Brain Research

Volumn 798, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 211-216

  Weeks, Andrew C w ^a   Ivanco, Tammy L ^b   Leboutillier, Janelle C ^a   Racine, Ronald J ^b   Petit, Ted L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; LTP; Synaptic morphology; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032490592     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00425-9     Document Type: Article

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