Slow NMDA-EPSCs at synapses critical for song development are not required for song learning in zebra finches

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 482-488

  Livingston, Frederick S ^a   White, Stephanie A ^a   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BIRD; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SYNAPSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; KINETICS; LEARNING; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PROSENCEPHALON; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SONGBIRDS; SYNAPSES; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0033931616     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74857     Document Type: Article

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