Evidence for a contribution of lateral inhibition to orientation tuning and direction selectivity in cat visual cortex: Reversible inactivation of functionally characterized sites combined with neuroanatomical tracing techniques

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2056-2075

  Crook, John M ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Areas 17 and 18, basket cells; Biocytin; Cross orientation inhibition; Iso orientation inhibition; 3h nipecotic acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BIOCYTIN; NIPECOTIC ACID;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID UPTAKE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CAT; CELL INTERACTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IONTOPHORESIS; MICROINJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IONTOPHORESIS; LYSINE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NIPECOTIC ACIDS; ORIENTATION; PROLINE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031842648     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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