Orientation-specific relationship between populations of excitatory and inhibitory lateral connections in the visual cortex of the cat

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 605-618

  Kisvárday, Zoltán F ^a   Tóth, Éva ^a   Rausch, Martin ^a   Eysel, Ulf T ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LYSINE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030705223     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/7.7.605     Document Type: Article

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