Watermaze learning enhances excitability of CA1 pyramidal neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2171-2179

  Oh, M Matthew ^a,b   Kuo, Amy G ^a,b   Wu, Wendy W ^a   Sametsky, Evgeny A ^a   Disterhoft, John F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0142027042     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01177.2002     Document Type: Article

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