Maturation of neuronal form and function in a mouse thalamo-cortical circuit

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 277-295

  Warren, Richard A ^b   Jones, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

Author keywords

injected cells; oscillations; reticular nucleus; sleep; ventral posterior nucleus; whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

EID: 0031025730     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-01-00277.1997     Document Type: Article

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