Timing is essential for rapid effects of corticosterone on synaptic potentiation in the mouse hippocampus

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 110-113

  Wiegert, Olof ^a   Joëls, Marian ^a   Krugers, Harm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; STRESS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645533662     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.87706     Document Type: Article

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