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Silent Synapse Maturation

Silent Synapse Maturation is a neurobiological process in which initially non-functional glutamatergic synapses, containing NMDA receptors but lacking AMPA receptors, acquire AMPA receptor-mediated functionality and thereby become competent for synaptic transmission.

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Maturation of a Central Glutamatergic Synapse

Gang Wu, Roberto Malinow, Hollis T. Cline · Science · 1996 · 549 citations

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Selective acquisition of AMPA receptors over postnatal development suggests a molecular basis for silent synapses

Ronald S. Petralia, José A. Esteban, Y.–X. Wang et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 1999 · 494 citations

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Synapse-specific regulation of AMPA receptor function by PSD-95

Jean-Claude Béïque, Da‐Ting Lin, Myoung‐Goo Kang et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 410 citations · Full text

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Regulation of morphological postsynaptic silent synapses in developing hippocampal neurons

Dezhi Liao, Xiaoqun Zhang, Richard O’Brien et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 1999 · 395 citations

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Bidirectional Modulation of Incubation of Cocaine Craving by Silent Synapse-Based Remodeling of Prefrontal Cortex to Accumbens Projections

Yao‐Ying Ma, Xiusong Wang, Changyong Guo et al. · Neuron · 2014 · 350 citations · Full text

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Authors

212

  1. OM
    Oliver M. Schlüter

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    9 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. YD
    Yan Dong

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    8 publications · 1K citations

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  3. YH
    Yanhua H. Huang

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    5 publications · 809 citations

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  4. EH
    Eric Hanse

    University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    4 publications · 209 citations

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  5. BG
    Bengt Gustafsson

    University of Gothenburg, Sweden

    3 publications · 193 citations

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Institutions

92

  1. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    8 h-index

    36 publications

    5.2K citations

  2. University of Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    6 h-index

    21 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. University of Gothenburg

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    601 citations

  4. Ruhr University Bochum

    Bochum, Germany

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    933 citations

  5. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    988 citations

  6. Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain Cluster of Excellence 171 — DFG Research Center 103

    Göttingen, Germany

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    731 citations

  7. European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    803 citations

  8. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    860 citations

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  1. Journal of Neuroscience

    11 publications · 1K citations

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  2. Journal of Neurophysiology

    JN · 7 publications · 314 citations

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  3. Nature Neuroscience

    5 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 5 publications · 850 citations

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  5. Neuron

    3 publications · 713 citations

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