Shaping inhibition: Activity dependent structural plasticity of GABAergic synapses

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue October, 2014, Pages

  Flores, Carmen E ^a   Méndez, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; Cerebral cortex; GABAergic synapses; Hippocampus; Interneuron; Memory; Structural plasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; GEPHYRIN; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

BRAIN CELL; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNEURON; MEMORY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVIEW; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84908381322     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00327     Document Type: Review

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