Synaptic plasticity in the acoustic startle pathway: The neuronal basis for short-term habituation?

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1325-1332

  Weber, Maruschka ^a   Schnitzler, Hans Ulrich ^a   Schmid, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caudal pontine reticular formation; Group III mGluR; Metabotropic glutamate receptor; Paired pulse facilitation; Rat; Synaptic depression

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; ALPHA CARBOXYLPHENYLGLYCINE; ALPHA CYCLOPROPYL 4 PHOSPHONOPHENYLGLYCINE; ALPHA PHOSPHONOPHENYLGLYCINE; GLYCINE DERIVATIVE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN SLICE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GIANT NERVE CELL; HABITUATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PATCH CLAMP; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STARTLE REFLEX; SYNAPSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALANINE; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLYCINE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; LONG-TERM DEPRESSION (PHYSIOLOGY); NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETICULAR FORMATION; STARTLE REACTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0036428576     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02194.x     Document Type: Article

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