Age and experience dependence of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-independent long-term potentiation in rat visual cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-98

  Ohmura, Tomohisa ^a   Ming, Ren ^b   Yoshimura, Yumiko ^b   Komatsu, Yukio ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Excitatory synaptic transmission; Experience dependent modification; Long term potentiation; Synaptic plasticity; Visual cortex; Voltage gated Ca2+ channels

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADULTHOOD; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIENCE; INHIBITION KINETICS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037402325     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00170-8     Document Type: Article

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