Spine growth precedes synapse formation in the adult neocortex in vivo

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1117-1124

  Knott, Graham W ^a   Holtmaat, Anthony ^b   Wilbrecht, Linda ^b   Welker, Egbert ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL SURFACE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33748100357     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1747     Document Type: Article

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