Enhanced long-term potentiation in mice lacking cannabinoid CB1 receptors

Neuroscience

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-7

  Bohme, G A ^a   Laville, M ^a   Ledent, C ^b   Parmentier, M ^b   Imperato, A ^a  

^a SANOFI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brain slices; Electrophysiology; Memory formation; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CANNABIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, CANNABINOID; RECEPTORS, DRUG; REFERENCE VALUES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032745087     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00483-2     Document Type: Article

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