Dentritic spines: structure, dynamics and regulation

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 880-888

  Hering, Heike ^a   Sheng, Morgan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITES; HUMAN; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035654078     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35104061     Document Type: Article

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