Widely integrative properties of layer 5 pyramidal cells support a role for processing of extralaminar synaptic inputs in rat neocortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 121-124

  Telfeian, Albert E ^a,b,c   Connors, Barry W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain slice; Cerebral cortex; Excitatory postsynaptic potential; Horizontal connection; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL ACTIVATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0038662908     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00379-3     Document Type: Article

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