A network of fast-spiking cells in the neocortex connected by electrical synapses

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6757, 1999, Pages 72-75

  Galarreta, Mario ^a   Hestrin, Shaul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INTERNEURON; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INTERNEURONS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033523966     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/47029     Document Type: Article

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