Facilitation of long-term potentiation in layer II/III horizontal connections of rat motor cortex following layer I stimulation: Route of effect and cholinergic contributions

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 279-290

  Hess, Grzegorz ^a   Donoghue, John P ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Brain slices; Cerebral cortex; Long term depression; Rat; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032785477     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050797     Document Type: Article

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