Spine loss in primary somatosensory cortex during trace eyeblink conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3772-3781

  Joachimsthaler, Bettina ^a,b   Brugger, Dominik ^a,b   Skodras, Angelos ^b,c   Schwarz, Cornelius ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barrel column; Spine plasticity; Trace eyeblink conditioning; Trained mice; Two photon imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EYELID CLOSURE; EYELID REFLEX; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE LOSS; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRAINING; TWO PHOTON IMAGING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; INNERVATION; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, EYELID; DENDRITIC SPINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84924793657     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2043-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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