Spatiotemporal dynamics of dendritic spines in the living brain

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Chia Chien ^a   Lu, Ju ^b   Zuo, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Dendritic spine; Experience dependent plasticity; In vivo; Neural circuit; Two photon imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CONNECTOME; DENDRITIC SPINE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

EID: 84900558583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00028     Document Type: Review

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