Coincident induction of long-term facilitation in Aplysia: Cooperativity between cell bodies and remote synapses

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5435, 1999, Pages 1911-1914

  Sherff, Carolyn M ^a   Carew, Thomas J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; FACILITATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURON; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; APLYSIA; EMETINE; INTERNEURONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; SEROTONIN; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; APLYSIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033578658     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5435.1911     Document Type: Article

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36. Supported by National Institutes of Health grant F32-MH12004 to C.M.S. and National Institute of Mental Health grant RO1MH-14-1083 to T.J.C. We thank E. Kandel, S. McKay, and M. Sutton for helpful comments on a previous draft of this paper.