Changes in synaptic structure underlie the developmental speeding of AMPA receptor-mediated EPSCs

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1310-1318

  Cathala, Laurence ^a,b   Holderith, Noemi B ^c   Nusser, Zoltan ^c   DiGregorio, David A ^b   Cull Candy, Stuart G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MINIATURE ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VELOCITY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BENZODIAZEPINES; CEREBELLUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KYNURENIC ACID; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 27744450800     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1534     Document Type: Article

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