Coupled networks of parvalbumin-immunoreactive interneurons in the rat basolateral amygdala

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 32, 2005, Pages 7366-7376

  Muller, Jay F ^a   Mascagni, Franco ^a   McDonald, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal gap junctions; Chemical synapses; Dendritic gap junctions; Electron microscopy; GABAergic interneurons; Oscillations

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NERVE NET; PARVALBUMINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 23744457009     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0899-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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