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Neighborly synapses help each other out

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Cortical circuits are shaped by sensory experience. These changes have now been visualized with single-synapse resolution in vivo, revealing clustered potentiation along stretches of dendrite.

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Figure 1: Repetitive stimulation of a single whisker triggered enhanced surface expression of AMPA receptors in somatosensory cortex.

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  1. J. Simon Wiegert and Thomas G. Oertner are at the Institute for Synaptic Physiology, Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.,

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