Short-term depression of synaptic transmission from rat lateral geniculate nucleus to primary visual cortex in vivo

Brain Research

Volumn 1002, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 158-161

  Jia, Fan ^a   Xie, Xiaoqiao ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency depression; Geniculo cortical; Paired pulse depression; Rat; Short term synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYSACLOFEN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMPA RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; CALCIUM ION; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IONTOPHORESIS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 1342343007     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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