Short-term plasticity in excitatory synapses of the rat medial preoptic nucleus

Brain Research

Volumn 1110, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 128-135

  Malinina, Evgenya ^a   Druzin, Michael ^a,b   Johansson, Staffan ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

AMPA kainate receptor; Depression; Facilitation; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748421211     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.061     Document Type: Article

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