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Long-Term Potentiation

Medical Definition: 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.
Guide Notes: note category: "a persistent increase in synaptic efficacy"; DF: LTP
Previously Indexed: Synapses/physiology (1977-1993)

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