Development and spike timing-dependent plasticity of recurrent excitation in the Xenopus optic tectum

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 467-475

  Pratt, Kara G ^a   Dong, Wei ^a   Aizenman, Carlos D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HISTOGRAM; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE; XENOPUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; LARVA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; XENOPUS;

EID: 41149115132     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn2076     Document Type: Article

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