The HVC microcircuit: The synaptic basis for interactions between song motor and vocal plasticity pathways

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1952-1964

  Mooney, Richard ^a   Prather, Jonathan F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA A; HVC; In vitro intracellular; Paired recordings; Picrotoxin; Songbird; Unitary synaptic coupling; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCHES; INTERNEURONS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PICROTOXIN; PROSENCEPHALON; QUINOXALINES; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 14244258933     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3726-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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