Differentiation of corticothalamic and collateral thalamocortical synapses on mouse reticular nucleus neurons by EPSC amplitude and AMPA receptor subunit composition

Thalamus and Related Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-29

  Liu, Xiao Bo ^a   Bolea, Sonia ^a   Golshani, Peyman ^a   Jones, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical stimulation; GluR3 and GluR4 subunits; Immunoelectron microscopy; Quantal analysis; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001635957     PISSN: 14729288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-9288(01)00008-5     Document Type: Article

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