Electron microscopic 3D-reconstruction of dendritic spines in cultured hippocampal neurons undergoing synaptic plasticity

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 870-876

  Ovtscharoff Jr , Wladimir ^a   Segal, Menahem ^b   Goldin, Miri ^b   Helmeke, Carina ^a   Kreher, Ute ^a   Greenberger, Varda ^b   Herzog, Andreas ^a   Michaelis, Bernd ^a   Braun, Katharina ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dendritic spines; Presynaptic terminal; Pruning; Shaft synapses

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SYNAPSE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITIC SPINES; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44849123793     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20627     Document Type: Article

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