Differential susceptibility to synaptic plasticity reveals a functional specialization of ascending axon and parallel fiber synapses to cerebellar Purkinje cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 5153-5159

  Sims, Robert E ^a   Hartell, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Granule cell; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Purkinje cell; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULE CELL; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; WISTAR RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; LONG-TERM DEPRESSION (PHYSIOLOGY); LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33646942977     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4121-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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