neuronal plasticity

neuronal plasticity
Ability of nerve cells to change their properties eg. by sprouting new processes, making new synapses or altering the strength of existing synapses. See long-term potentiation and synaptic plasticity.

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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