Postnatal development of perisomatic GABAergic axon terminals on neurons projecting from area 17 to area 18 of the cat visual cortex

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-44

  Pérez Cerdá, Fernando ^a   Martínez Millán, Luis ^a   Matute, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axosomatic synapses; Immunohistochemistry; Retrograde labeling; Supragranular pyramidal cells; Visual cortex development

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; SYNAPTOSOME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, GABA; VISUAL CORTEX; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0344699454     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523899156190     Document Type: Article

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