GABAergic organization of the cat medial geniculate body

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 415, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 368-392

  Huang, Camillan L ^a   Larue, David T ^a   Winer, Jeffery A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Golgi type II cell; Inhibition; Interneuron; Local circuit; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CATS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENICULATE BODIES; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NEURONS;

EID: 0033590257     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19991220)415:3<368::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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