Morphology of layer III pyramidal neurons is altered following induction of LTP in sensorimotor cortex of the freely moving rat

Synapse

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-22

  Ivanco, Tammy L ^a,c   Racine, Ronald J ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Golgi; Long term potentiation; Motor cortex; Spine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENDRITE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; GOLGI APPARATUS; LOCOMOTION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0034089465     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(200007)37:1<16::AID-SYN2>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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