Effects of sleep-deprivation on long-term depression of excitatory synaptic transmission in the ca1 region of the hippocampus
In the central nervous system (CNS), synapses are considered to be the loci for memories. Activity dependent strengthening or weakening of synaptic strength via long-term potentiation (LTP) or depression (LTD), respectively, is widely postulated to underlie memory formation. Sleep, which is universa...
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University of British Columbia
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/40972 |
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