Learning and aging related changes in intrinsic neuronal excitability

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2010, Pages

  Oh, M Matthew ^a   Oliveira, Fernando A ^a   Disterhoft, John F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcineurin; Calcium; CICR; CREB; Excitability; Hippocampus; Postburst afterhyperpolarization; Protein kinase A

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953377074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.24.002.2010     Document Type: Review

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