Stably maintained dendritic spines are associated with lifelong memories

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7275, 2009, Pages 920-924

  Yang, Guang ^a   Pan, Feng ^a   Gan, Wen Biao ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; RODENT; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; FORELIMB; MEMORY; MICE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 72449182586     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08577     Document Type: Article

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