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long-term potentiation
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long-term potentiation [¦lȯŋ ‚tərm pə‚ten·chē′ā·shən]
(neuroscience)
A long-lasting increase in synaptic efficacy, believed to be involved in information storage in the brain.


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Figure 1 shows that there is a clear, long-lasting potentiation (up to 4 hours) of responses following trains of stimuli given at 15 per second to the hippocampal formation of awake, active rabbits.
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Long-lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the dentate area of the anaesthetized rabbit following stimulation of the perforant path.
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