long-term potentiation

persistent strengthening of synapses based on recent patterns of activity
Intangible biological_process Q1805481
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Summary

long-term potentiation is a biological process[1]. It draws 243 Wikipedia views per month (biological_process category, ranking #105 of 442).[2]

Key Facts

  • long-term potentiation is credited with the discovery of Terje Lømo[3].
  • long-term potentiation's instance of is recorded as biological process[4].
  • long-term potentiation's subclass of is recorded as synaptic plasticity[5].
  • long-term potentiation's subclass of is recorded as regulation of synaptic plasticity[6].
  • long-term potentiation's subclass of is recorded as positive regulation of synaptic transmission[7].
  • long-term potentiation's Commons category is recorded as Long-term potentiation[8].
  • long-term potentiation's opposite of is recorded as long-term depression[9].
  • long-term potentiation's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D017774[10].
  • long-term potentiation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/020lhp[11].
  • long-term potentiation's MeSH tree code is recorded as G11.561.638.350[12].
  • long-term potentiation's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0060291[13].
  • long-term potentiation's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1238m9nr[14].
  • long-term potentiation's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0060291[15].
  • long-term potentiation's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0206249[16].
  • long-term potentiation's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as long-term-potentiation[17].
  • long-term potentiation's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 25274449[18].
  • long-term potentiation's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C25274449[19].
  • long-term potentiation's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as ku65ha2y[20].

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Works and Contributions

long-term potentiation is credited with the discovery of Terje Lømo[3].

Why It Matters

long-term potentiation draws 243 Wikipedia views per month (biological_process category, ranking #105 of 442).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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