Long-range inhibition within the zebra finch song nucleus RA can coordinate the firing of multiple projection neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3007-3020

  Spiro, John E ^a   Dalva, Matthew B ^a   Mooney, Richard ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; GIANT CELL; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY NERVE CELL; SINGING;

EID: 0032981124     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.81.6.3007     Document Type: Article

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