Activity-dependent calpain activation plays a critical role in synaptic facilitation and post-tetanic potentiation

Learning and Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-141

  Khoutorsky, Arkady ^a   Spira, Micha E ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CALPAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPSINS;

EID: 59649097899     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1275709     Document Type: Article

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