Early impairment of synaptic plasticity in patients with Down's syndrome

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1272-1275

  Battaglia, Fortunato ^a   Quartarone, Angelo ^b   Rizzo, Vincenzo ^b   Ghilardi, Maria Felice ^a   Di Rocco, Alessandro ^c   Tortorella, Gaetano ^b   Girlanda, Paolo ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Down's syndrome; LTP; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 44949169564     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.02.025     Document Type: Article

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