The postsubiculum and spatial learning: The role of postsubicular synaptic activity and synaptic plasticity in hippocampal place cell, object, and object-location memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6938-6943

  Bett, David ^a,b   Stevenson, Cassie H ^a   Shires, Kate L ^a   Smith, Michael T ^a   Martin, Stephen J ^a   Dudchenko, Paul A ^a,b   Wood, Emma R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSUBICULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCREENING; SPATIAL LEARNING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; VISION;

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; 6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876224631     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5476-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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