Target-cell-specific short-term plasticity in local circuits

Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Blackman, Arne V ^a   Abrahamsson, Therese ^b   Costa, Rui Ponte ^c   Lalanne, Txomin ^b,d   Sjöström, P Jesper ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Network models; Short term plasticity; Synapse formation; Synapse specificity; Synaptic disease

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROLIGIN;

AGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; DYNAMICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACILITATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SHORT TERM PLASTICITY; SYNAPSE; TARGET CELL;

EID: 84903639765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16633563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2013.00011     Document Type: Review

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