Expression of long-term potentiation in aged rats involves perforated synapses but dendritic spine branching results from high-frequency stimulation alone

Hippocampus

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 255-264

  Dhanrajan, Tiruchinapalli M ^a   Lynch, Marina A ^b   Kelly, Aine ^b   Popov, Victor I ^a,c   Rusakov, Dmitri A ^a,d   Stewart, Michael G ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branched spines; LTP; Perforated synapses

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 1842779920     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.10172     Document Type: Article

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