Do thin spines learn to be mushroom spines that remember?

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 381-386

  Bourne, Jennifer ^a   Harris, Kristen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MOTILITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATURATION; MEMORY; MUSHROOM BODY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT AND FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINE; SPINE STABILIZATION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITIC SPINES; MEMORY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 34249933982     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2007.04.009     Document Type: Review

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