T he hypothesis that learning memory and some aspects of development are mechanistically implemented by synaptic plasticity has gained significant experimental support (1, 2). At the cellular and molecular level synaptic plasticity is a very complex phenomenon, involving hundreds of molecular species, depending on the structure of dendrites and on ion channel concentrations. If we are to unders...

objective(s):neurodegenerative alzheimer’s disease (ad) is associated with profound deficits in synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity. long-term potentiation (ltp), an experimental form of synaptic plasticity, is intensively examined in hippocampus. in this study we evaluated the effect of aqueous extract of lavender (lavandula angustifolia) on induction of ltp in the ca1 area of hippoc...