Sharp, local synchrony among putative feed-forward inhibitory interneurons of rabbit somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 567-582

  Swadlow, Harvey A ^a   Beloozerova, Irina N ^a   Sirota, Mikhail G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0031906036     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.2.567     Document Type: Article

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