Map of the synapses onto layer 4 basket cells of the primary visual cortex of the cat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 380, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 230-242

  Ahmed, Bashir ^a,b   Anderson, John C ^a   Martin, Kevan A C ^a   Nelson, J Charmaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bouton size distributions; morphometry; serial EM; smooth cells; synaptic quantification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; DENDRITES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0030960908     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970407)380:2<230::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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