Columnar organization of dendrites and axons of single and synaptically coupled excitatory spiny neurons in layer 4 of the rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 5300-5311

  Lübke, Joachim ^a   Egger, Veronica ^b   Sakmann, Bert ^b   Feldmeyer, Dirk ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axonal projection; Barrel cortex; Cortical column; Intracellular labeling; Layer 4; Paired recordings; Spiny stellate cell; Star pyramidal neuron

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0038007077     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-14-05300.2000     Document Type: Article

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