Dark rearing alters the short-term synaptic plasticity in visual cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 422, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-53

  Tang, Ai Hui ^a   Chai, Zhen ^a   Wang, Shi Qiang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dark rear; Excitation inhibition balance; Experience; Paired pulse depression; Short term depression; Steady state depression; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; EXPERIENCE; FACILITATED COMMUNICATION; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REARING; STEADY STATE; STIMULATION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VISUAL CORTEX; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; DARKNESS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34447537792     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.05.053     Document Type: Article

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