Long-term potentiation: Outstanding questions and attempted synthesis

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1432, 2003, Pages 829-842

  Lisman, John ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CaMKII; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Memory; Protein synthesis; Quantal analysis

Indexed keywords

MEMORY; NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038561173     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1242     Document Type: Review

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