Trace fear conditioning enhances synaptic and intrinsic plasticity in rat hippocampus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3397-3408

  Song, Chenghui ^a   Detert, Julia A ^a   Sehgal, Megha ^a   Moyer, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

After hyper polarization; Brain slice; Excitability; Learning and memory; Long term potentiation; Spike frequency adaptation

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRACE FEAR CONDITIONING;

EID: 84862561489     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00692.2011     Document Type: Article

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