Effects of melatonin on synaptic transmission and long-term potentiation in two areas of mouse hippocampus

Brain Research

Volumn 1111, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-94

  Ozcan, Mete ^a   Yilmaz, Bayram ^a   Carpenter, David O ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

CA1; CA3; Electrophysiology; LTP; Memory

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOSSY FIBER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MELATONIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748310909     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.117     Document Type: Article

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