Enhancing Synaptic Plasticity and Memory: A Role for Small-Conductance Ca2+-Activated K+ Channels

Neuroscientist

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 434-439

  Tzounopoulos, Thanos ^a,b   Stackman, Robert ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Memory; Review; SK channel; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM ION; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SMALL-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0345016040     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858403259282     Document Type: Review

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