Long-Term Potentiation in an Avian Basal Ganglia Nucleus Essential for Vocal Learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 488-494

  Ding, Long ^a,c   Perkel, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Dopamine; Glutamate; Song learning; Songbird; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BIRD; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SONGBIRD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOCAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 1642580554     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4358-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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