Structural plasticity of spines at giant mossy fiber synapses

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Zhao, Shanting ^a   Studer, Daniel ^b   Chai, Xuejun ^a   Graber, Werner ^b   Brose, Nils ^c   Nestel, Sigrun ^d   Young, Christina ^d   Patricia Rodriguez, E ^e   Saetzler, Kurt ^e   Frotscher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Dendritic spine; Dentate gyrus; Granule cells; High pressure freezing; Mossy fiber LTP; Synaptic ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ACTIN FILAMENT; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; DENDRITIC SPINE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; PATCH CLAMP; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; REVIEW; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 84873312641     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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