Glutamate locally activates dendritic outputs of thalamic interneurons

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6692, 1998, Pages 478-482

  Cox, Charles L ^a   Zhou, Qiang ^a   Sherman, S Murray ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 AMINO 1,3 CYCLOPENTANEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CATS; CYCLOLEUCINE; DENDRITES; GENICULATE BODIES; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTERNEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; TETRODOTOXIN; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032581653     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28855     Document Type: Article

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