A Telencephalic Nucleus Essential for Song Learning Contains Neurons with Physiological Characteristics of Both Striatum and Globus Pallidus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 3776-3787

  Farries, Michael A ^a   Perkel, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Area X; Basal ganglia; Motor learning; Song learning; Songbird; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SLICE; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; LEARNING; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELENCEPHALON; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANARY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; PATCH CLAMP; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CESIUM; CESIUM CHLORIDE; CHLORIDE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; CANARIES; CESIUM; CHLORIDES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; INTERNEURONS; LEARNING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; PROSENCEPHALON; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SONGBIRDS; TELENCEPHALON; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0036584735     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-09-03776.2002     Document Type: Article

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