Structural plasticity upon learning: Regulation and functions

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 478-490

  Caroni, Pico ^a   Donato, Flavio ^a   Muller, Dominique ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDUCIN; AMPA RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DISRUPTED IN SCHIZOPHRENIA 1 PROTEIN; DOPAMINE; F ACTIN; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GELATINASE B; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE 3; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN KINASE C; RAC1 PROTEIN; SEROTONIN; TUBERIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; BEHAVIOR; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; HISTONE ACETYLATION; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MENTAL HEALTH; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84862628165     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3258     Document Type: Review

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