Changes of synaptic ultrastructure in the guinea pig interpositus nuclei associate with response magnitude and timing after trace eyeblink conditioning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 529-537

  Hu, Bo ^a   Chen, Hao ^a   Yang, Li ^a   Tao, Zhong fen ^a   Yan, Jie ^a   Zhang, Yong hai ^a   Zhu, Zhi ru ^a   Sun, Wei zhong ^a   Huang, Wei ^a   Huang, Wen qi ^a   Sui, Jian feng ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eyeblink; Guinea pig; Interpositus nuclei; Synapse; Trace conditioning; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EYELID REFLEX; GUINEA PIG; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; TRAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, EYELID; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POST-SYNAPTIC DENSITY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 81355154693     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.10.011     Document Type: Article

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