The Two Sides of Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Plasticity
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Two studies in this issue of Neuron (Kwon and Castillo and Rebola et al.) show that the mossy fiber-CA3 pyramidal neuron synapse, a hippocampal synapse well known for its presynaptic plasticity, exhibits a novel form of long-term potentiation of NMDAR-mediated currents, which is induced and expressed postsynaptically.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 57 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008