Anatomical and sensory experiential determinants of synaptic plasticity in layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons of mouse barrel cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 519, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2090-2124

  Hardingham, Neil R ^a   Gould, Tim ^a   Fox, Kevin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dendrites; LTP; Morphology; Spine density

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 79959399805     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22583     Document Type: Article

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