Remodeling of hippocampal synapses after hippocampus-dependent associative learning

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 417, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-59

  Geinisman, Yuri ^a   Disterhoft, John F ^a   Gundersen, Hans Jørgen G ^b   Mcechron, Matthew D ^a   Persina, Inna S ^a,c   Power, John M ^a   Van Der Zee, Eddy A ^a,d   West, Mark J ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c The Chicago Medical College   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Postsynaptic density; Rabbit hippocampus; Silent synapses; Structural synaptic plasticity; Trace eyeblink conditioning; Unbiased stereology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 0034737011     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(20000131)417:1<49::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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