Altered glutamate/GABA equilibrium in aged mice cortex influences cortical plasticity

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1681-1693

  Liguz Lecznar, Monika ^a   Lehner, Malgorzata ^b   Kaliszewska, Aleksandra ^a   Zakrzewska, Renata ^a   Sobolewska, Alicja ^b   Kossut, Malgorzata ^a,c  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^c SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aging; Excitation; Inhibition; Learning; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; GLUTAMIC ACID; SLC17A6 PROTEIN, MOUSE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

AGING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTOSOME;

AGING; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84896422480     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0752-6     Document Type: Article

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