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Abstract
During and after degeneration of the optic nerve afferents in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) postsynaptic density (PD) material is added to existing symmetrical and asymmetrical appositions of non-optic synapses on optic target neurons. If the correlation between thickness of the postsynaptic density and excitatory or inhibitory function of a synapse holds in this nucleus, the change in morphology of synapses could mean that some inhibitory synapses turn into excitatory contacts.Entities:
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Year: 1980 PMID: 6302580 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(80)90056-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurosci Lett ISSN: 0304-3940 Impact factor: 3.046