Model-based analysis of excitatory lateral connections in the visual cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 499, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 861-881

  Buzás, Péter ^a,b,e   Kovács, Krisztina ^a   Ferecskó, Alex S ^a   Budd, Julian M L ^c   Eysel, Ulf T ^a   Kisvárday, Zoltán F ^a,d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Horizontal connections; Orientation map; Pyramidal neurons; Spiny stellate neurons; von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CAT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION MAP; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STELLATE GANGLION; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VON MISES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; LYSINE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845381257     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21134     Document Type: Article

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