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Descriptor English: Long-Term Potentiation
Descriptor Spanish: Potenciación a Largo Plazo
Descriptor potenciación a largo plazo
Scope note: Aumento persistente en la eficacia sináptica, por lo general inducida por medio de una activación apropiada de las mismas sinapsis. Las propiedades fenomenológicas de la potenciación a largo plazo sugieren que puede ser un mecanismo celular del aprendizaje y de la memoria.
Descriptor Portuguese: Potenciação de Longa Duração
Descriptor French: Potentialisation à long terme
Entry term(s): Long Term Potentiation
Long-Term Potentiations
Potentiation, Long-Term
Potentiations, Long-Term
Tree number(s): G11.561.638.350
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017774
Scope note: A persistent increase in synaptic efficacy, usually induced by appropriate activation of the same synapses. The phenomenological properties of long-term potentiation suggest that it may be a cellular mechanism of learning and memory.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Synapses/physiology (1977-1993)
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
Entry Version: LTP
DeCS ID: 31335
Unique ID: D017774
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Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1993/06/18
Revision Date: 2018/06/30
Long-Term Potentiation - Preferred
Concept UI M0026865
Scope note A persistent increase in synaptic efficacy, usually induced by appropriate activation of the same synapses. The phenomenological properties of long-term potentiation suggest that it may be a cellular mechanism of learning and memory.
Preferred term Long-Term Potentiation
Entry term(s) Long Term Potentiation
Long-Term Potentiations
Potentiation, Long-Term
Potentiations, Long-Term



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