Evidence that disinhibition is associated with a decrease in number of vesicles available for release at inhibitory synapses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 971-976

  Ledoux, Veronica A ^a   Woolley, Catherine S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; GABA; Hippocampus; IPSC; Paired pulse depression; Serial reconstruction

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ESTROGEN;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EXCITATION AND STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INHIBITION KINETICS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REDUCTION KINETICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROGLIA; OVARIECTOMY; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 12844263599     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3489-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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