Dendritic spines and long-term plasticity

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 277-284

  Segal, Menahem ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TIME;

EID: 16344375400     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1649     Document Type: Review

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