Long-term depression in the hippocampal CA1 area of aged rats, revisited: contribution of temporal constraints related to slice preparation.

BACKGROUND: The effects of low-frequency conditioning stimulation (LFS, 900 pulses at 1 Hz) of glutamatergic afferents in CA1 hippocampal area using slices from two different strains of adult (3-5 month-old) and aged (23-27 month-old) rats were reinvestigated regarding the discrepancies in the liter...

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Main Author: Jean-marie Billard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2844418?pdf=render