Short-term plasticity at the calyx of held

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-64

  von Gersdorff, Henrique ^a   Borst, J Gerard G ^b,c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM;

ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN STEM; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; CALCIUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036371005     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn705     Document Type: Article

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