Activity-dependent formation of perforated synapses in cultured hippocampal neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4241-4250

  Neuhoff, Henrike ^a   Roeper, Jochen ^a,b   Schweizer, Michaela ^a  

^a Center for Molecular Neurobiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; NMDA; Plasticity; Rat hippocampal cell culture; Tissue type plasminogen activator; tPA

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PICROTOXIN; TETRODOTOXIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SYNAPSE;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLOHEPTANES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PICROTOXIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR 1; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SYNAPSES; TETRODOTOXIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0033405201     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00856.x     Document Type: Article

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