Deficits in nitric oxide production after tetanic stimulation are related to the reduction of long-term potentiation in Schaffer-CA1 synapses in aged Fischer 344 rats

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-85

  Mori, Kiyoshi ^a   Togashi, H ^a   Matsumoto, M ^a   Yoshioka, M ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ageing; Electrical nerve stimulation; In vivo brain microdialysis

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITES; PERFORANT PATHWAY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0034062504     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201X.2000.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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