Neural plasticity: changes with age.
Changes in the number, type and function of nervous system connections, in the morphology and function of glia and in neuron-glia interactions, are at the basis of vertebrate adjustment to changing environmental and physiological conditions. Collected under "neural plasticity", these age-dependent changes underlie adaptations apparently as different as the physiological response to dehydration or learning, and its electrophysiological and morphological correlates.
Nieto-Sampedro
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Grupo de Plasticidad Neural, Instituto Cajal de Neurobiología, CSIC, Madrid, Spain. mns@cajal.scic.es
Nieto-Díaz
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D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*