Decoding Hippocampal Signaling Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury

Translational Stroke Research

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 546-555

  Atkins, Coleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Long term potentiation; Memory; Protein kinase; Synapse; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEAD INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 83355166776     PISSN: 18684483     EISSN: 1868601X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12975-011-0123-z     Document Type: Review

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