Synaptic responsiveness of interneurons of the cat lateral amygdaloid nucleus

Neuroscience

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 877-889

  Lang, E J ^a   Pare D ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amygdala; Entorhinal; Epilepsy; GABA; Inhibition; Perirhinal

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; INTERNEURONS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032484536     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00420-X     Document Type: Article

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