Properties of excitatory synaptic responses in fast-spiking interneurons and pyramidal cells from monkey and rat prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 541-552

  Povysheva, N V ^a   Gonzalez Burgos, G ^a   Zaitsev, A V ^a   Kroner S ^a,b   Barrionuevo, G ^a   Lewis, D A ^a   Krimer, L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connected pairs; Extracellular stimulation; Miniature EPSPs; Minimal stimulation; Unitary EPSPs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECORDING; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; WHITE MATTER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33644878909     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj002     Document Type: Article

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