Facilitated CA1 hippocampal synaptic plasticity in dystrophin-deficient mice: Role of GABAA receptors?

Hippocampus

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 713-717

  Vaillend, Cyrille ^a   Billard, Jean Marie ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE PAUL BROCA   (France)

Author keywords

Bicuculline; Disinhibition; Long term depression; Mdx mice; Short term potentiation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; BRAIN PROTEIN; DYSTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DYSTROPHIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM DEPRESSION (PHYSIOLOGY); MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036954395     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.10068     Document Type: Article

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