Exploring a critical parameter of timing in the mouse cerebellar microcircuitry: The parallel fiber diameter

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-44

  Sultan, Fahad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axons; Quantitative anatomy; Synchronicity; Tidalwave

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRANULE CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033979114     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00984-2     Document Type: Article

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