Massive autaptic self-innervation of GABAergic neurons in cat visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 6352-6364

  Tamás, Gábor ^a,b   Buhl, Eberhard H ^a   Somogyi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Autapse; Feedback; Inhibition; Interneuron; Neocortex; Pyramidal cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; DENDRITIC CELL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030792365     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-16-06352.1997     Document Type: Article

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