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Stress and long-term synaptic depression

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Acute inescapable stress reverses the direction of synaptic plasticity in the intact hippocampus via a corticosterone-mediated activation of glucocorticoid receptors and protein/RNA synthesis.

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  1. Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Trinity College, Dublin, 2, Ireland

    M J Rowan

  2. Department of Physiology, Trinity College, 2, Dublin, Ireland

    R Anwyl

  3. Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China

    L Xu

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Rowan, M., Anwyl, R. & Xu, L. Stress and long-term synaptic depression. Mol Psychiatry 3, 472–474 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000429

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