Neuronal NT-3 is not required for synaptic transmission or long-term potentiation in area CA1 of the adult rat hippocampus

Learning and Memory

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-275

  Ma, Long ^a   Reis, Gerald ^b   Parada, Luis F ^a   Schuman, Erin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SYNAPSIN I;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POST TETANIC POTENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RATS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032853797     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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