Regulatory mechanisms of AMPA receptors in synaptic plasticity

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-113

  Derkach, Victor A ^a   Oh, Michael C ^a   Guire, Eric S ^a   Soderling, Thomas R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

CELL MIGRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITE; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPSES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33846558995     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2055     Document Type: Review

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