Critical assessment of the involvement of perforations, spinules, and spine branching in hippocampal synapse formation

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 398, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-240

  Sorra, Karin E ^a,b   Fiala, John C ^b   Harris, Kristen M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampal slices; Plasticity; Postsynaptic density; Serial electron microscopy; Synaptogenesis; Three dimensional reconstructions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DENDRITIC SPINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032563735     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980824)398:2<225::AID-CNE5>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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