Gap junctions among dendrites of cortical GABAergic neurons establish a dense and widespread intercolumnar network

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3434-3443

  Fukuda, Takaichi ^a,b   Kosaka, Toshio ^a   Singer, Wolf ^b   Galuske, Ralf A W ^b,c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connexin36; Gap junction; Interneuron; Orientation column; Parvalbumin; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CONNEXIN 36; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GAP JUNCTIONS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NERVE NET; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33645450074     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4076-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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