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
Djukic, B., Casper, K. B., Philpot, B. D., Chin, L. S. & McCarthy, K. D. Conditional knock-out of Kir4.1 leads to glial membrane depolarization, inhibition of potassium and glutamate uptake, and enhanced short-term synaptic potentiation.
From Nature ● Feb. 13, 2018
Although the hippocampus is crucial for memory, the neurons in CA2, oddly, fail to participate in the cellular process on which learning and memory depend: long-term potentiation, which strengthens communication between neurons that fire together.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 15, 2011
This phenomenon, known as long-term potentiation, is believed to be the essence of one type of memory formation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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