Morphological, electrophysiological, and synaptic properties of corticocallosal pyramidal cells in the neonatal rat neocortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2204-2213

  Le Bé, Jean Vincent ^a   Silberberg, Gilad ^a,b   Wang, Yun ^c   Markram, Henry ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Neocortex; Pyramidal neurons; Synaptic connections

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFRARED RAYS; LYSINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOCORTEX; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33847177475     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl127     Document Type: Article

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