Repetitive magnetic stimulation induces plasticity of excitatory postsynapses on proximal dendrites of cultured mouse CA1 pyramidal neurons

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3323-3337

  Lenz, Maximilian ^a   Platschek, Steffen ^a   Priesemann, Viola ^b,c   Becker, Denise ^a   Willems, Laurent M ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^d   Deller, Thomas ^a   Müller Dahlhaus, Florian ^d   Jedlicka, Peter ^a   Vlachos, Andreas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; AMPA receptors; Backpropagating action potentials; Computational modelling; Hebbian plasticity; Silent synapses; Spike timing dependent plasticity; Strontium

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACKWARD PROPAGATING ACTION POTENTIAL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL DENDRITE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REPETITIVE MAGNETIC STIMULATION; STRATUM RADIATUM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84942366243     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0859-9     Document Type: Article

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