Morphometric analysis of the columnar innervation domain of neurons connecting layer 4 and layer 2/3 of juvenile rat barrel cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1051-1063

  Lübke, Joachim ^a   Roth, Arnd ^b   Feldmeyer, Dirk ^b   Sakmann, Bert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INNERVATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0141625024     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.10.1051     Document Type: Article

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