title: Imaging synaptic plasticity.
abstract: Over the past decade, the use and development of optical imaging techniques has advanced our understanding of synaptic plasticity by offering the spatial and temporal resolution necessary to examine long-term changes at individual synapses. Here, we review the use of these techniques in recent studies of synaptic plasticity and, in particular, long-term potentiation in the hippocampus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3QT, UK.
authors.forename: Zahid
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Padamsey
authors.forename: Nigel J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Emptage
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D017774:Long-Term Potentiation / Q000502:physiology; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology*