Increased excitability of aged rabbit CA1 neurons after trace eyeblink conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 5476-5482

  Moyer Jr , James R ^a,b   Power, John M ^a,c   Thompson, Lucien T ^a,d   Disterhoft, John F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Afterhyperpolarization; Aging; Associative learning; Hippocampus; In vitro; Intracellular; Spike frequency adaptation

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL AGING; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EYELID REFLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

EID: 0034662335     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-14-05476.2000     Document Type: Article

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