AMPA-silent synapses in brain development and pathology

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 839-850

  Hanse, Eric ^a   Seth, Henrik ^a   Riebe, Ilse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID;

ADDICTION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84888137048     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3642     Document Type: Review

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