Immunoreactivity for the GABAA receptor α1 subunit, somatostatin and connexin36 distinguishes axoaxonic, basket, and bistratified interneurons of the rat hippocampus

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2094-2107

  Baude, Agnès ^a,b   Bleasdale, Catherine ^a   Dalezios, Yannis ^a,c,d   Somogyi, Peter ^a   Klausberger, Thomas ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Extrasynaptic receptor; Firing pattern; Gap junction; Immunofluorescence; Parvalbumin; Tonic inhibition

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CONNEXIN 36; NEUROPEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN; GABRA1 PROTEIN, RAT; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CONNEXINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PEROXIDASE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 34547685991     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl117     Document Type: Article

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