Morphological correlates of bilateral synchrony in the rat cerebellar cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3412-3426

  De Zeeuw, C I ^a,b   Lang, E J ^a   Sugihara, I ^a   Ruigrok, T J H ^b   Eisenman, L M ^d   Mugnaini, E ^c   Llinas R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellar nuclei; complex spikes; dendritic lamellar bodies; dorsomedial cell column; electrotonic coupling; GABA; gap junctions; inferior olive; spinal trigeminal nucleus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CLIMBING FIBER; DENDRITE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR OLIVE; MALE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SPIKE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0029930271     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-10-03412.1996     Document Type: Article

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