Functionally distinct NMDA receptors mediate horizontal connectivity within Layer 4 of mouse barrel cortex

Neuron

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1055-1065

  Fleidervish, Ilya A ^a   Binshtok, Alexander M ^a   Gutnick, Michael J ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

EID: 0032214481     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80623-6     Document Type: Article

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