Nicotine Uses Neuron-Glia Communication to Enhance Hippocampal Synaptic Transmission and Long-term Memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  López Hidalgo, Mónica ^a   Salgado Puga, Karla ^a   Alvarado Martínez, Reynaldo ^a   Medina, Andrea Cristina ^a   Prado Alcalá, Roberto A ^a   García Colunga, Jesús ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRO SERINE; FLUOROACETIC ACID; NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; NEUROGLIA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SERINE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84869777978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049998     Document Type: Article

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