Long-term potentiation and the ageing brain

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1432, 2003, Pages 765-772

  Barnes, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Hippocampus; Learning; Long term potentiation; Memory

Indexed keywords

AGING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038222582     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1244     Document Type: Review

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