Local connections to specific types of layer 6 neurons in the rat visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1751-1761

  Zarrinpar, Amir ^a,b   Callaway, Edward M ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LASER MICROSCOPY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECORDING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33645970711     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00974.2005     Document Type: Article

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