Chandelier cells control excessive cortical excitation: Characteristics of whisker-evoked synaptic responses of layer 2/3 nonpyramidal and pyramidal neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 5101-5108

  Zhu, Yinghua ^a   Stornetta, Ruth L ^a   Zhu, J Julius ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Excitation; Inhibition; Rat; Somatosensory; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHANDELIER CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACE; HISTOLOGY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SYNAPSE; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 2642535350     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0544-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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