Salient features of synaptic organisation in the cerebral cortex

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 113-135

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

GABA receptor; Glutamate receptor; Hippocampus; Neocortex; Neurotransmission; Synapse

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032078571     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(97)00061-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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