Morphological changes in hippocampal dentate gyrus synapses following spatial learning in rats are transient

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1973-1980

  Eyre, Mark D ^a   Richter Levin, Gal ^b   Avital, Avi ^b   Stewart, Michael G ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Synaptic alterations; Water maze training

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0038054198     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02624.x     Document Type: Article

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