potentiation
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The researchers also observed that p53 levels were elevated after a period of active communication between hippocampal neurons called long-term potentiation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2023
Two mechanisms of synaptic plasticity are long-term potentiation and long-term depression.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Synaptic potentiation onto habenula neurons in the learned helplessness model of depression.
From Nature ● Feb. 13, 2018
When the investigators bred mice lacking the gene that codes for RGS14, they found that the neurons in CA2 suddenly demonstrated long-term potentiation.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 15, 2011
In describing Anturane, Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals said only: "Its pharmacologic activity is limited almost exclusively to the potentiation of the urinary excretion of uric acid."
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