Comparison of hippocampal dendritic spines in culture and in brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 5294-5300

  Boyer, Christopher ^a   Schikorski, Thomas ^a   Stevens, Charles F ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Hippocampus; Morphometry; Spines; Synapse; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0032527884     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-14-05294.1998     Document Type: Article

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