Synaptic connections between layer 4 spiny neurone-layer 2/3 pyramidal cell pairs in juvenile rat barrel cortex: Physiology and anatomy of interlaminar signalling within a cortical column

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 538, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 803-822

  Feldmeyer, Dirk ^a   Lübke, Joachim ^b   Silver, R Angus ^c   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MAGNESIUM ION; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STELLATE CELL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINY STELLATE NEURON; SYNAPSE; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0036487071     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2001.012959     Document Type: Article

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