The functional nature of synaptic circuitry is altered in area CA3 of the hippocampus in a mouse model of Down's syndrome

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 579, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-67

  Hanson, Jesse E ^a   Blank, Martina ^b   Valenzuela, Ricardo A ^a   Garner, Craig C ^b   Madison, Daniel V ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRISOMY 16; ACTION POTENTIAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL MOSSY FIBER; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MINIATURE ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; MOUSE MODEL; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOWN SYNDROME; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES;

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EID: 33846986326     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.114868     Document Type: Article

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