Augmenting saturated LTP by broadly spaced episodes of theta-burst stimulation in hippocampal area CA1 of adult rats and mice

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1916-1924

  Cao, Guan ^a   Harris, Kristen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory; Metaplasticity; Spaced learning; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRATUM RADIATUM; AGE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908077874     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00297.2014     Document Type: Article

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