Receptor blockade reveals a correspondence between hippocampal-dependent behavior and experience-dependent synaptic enhancement

Brain Research

Volumn 871, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-43

  Foster, T C ^a   Fugger, H N ^a   Cunningham, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Long term potentiation; Memory; NMDA receptor; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERFORANT PATHWAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0034648069     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02379-9     Document Type: Article

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