Evidence that long-term potentiation occurs within individual hippocampal synapses during learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 8031-8039

  Fedulov, Vadim ^a   Rex, Christopher S ^a   Simmons, Danielle A ^a   Palmer, Linda ^b   Gall, Christine M ^a   Lynch, Gary ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cofilin; Immunoreactivity; Phosphorylation; PSD 95; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

4 (3 PHOSPHONOPROPYL) 2 PIPERAZINECARBOXYLIC ACID; COFILIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPINE; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; PIPERAZINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 34547400388     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2003-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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