Long-term sensitization training produces spike narrowing in Aplysia sensory neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 676-683

  Antzoulatos, Evangelos G ^a,b   Byrne, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Spike broadening; Spike waveform; Spike width; Synaptic depression; Synaptic facilitation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE; TRAINING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846454713     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4025-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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