Figure 8.
Restoration of hippocampal long-term potentiation by geranylgeraniol treatment of slices from cholesterol 24-hydroxylase knockout mice (a) and those from wild-type mice treated with a statin (b). Data in (a) redrawn and reprinted with permission from Reference 79. Abbreviations: fEPSP slope, slope of extracellularly recorded (field) excitatory postsynaptic potentials; +/+, wild type for cholesterol 24-hydroxylase; −/−, homozygous for cholesterol 24-hydroxylase mutation; arrow, time of θ-burst stimulation; NS, not significant.