Development of GABA innervation in the cerebral and cerebellar cortices

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 673-686

  Huang, Z J ^a   Di Cristo, G ^b   Ango, F ^c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNOMIQUE FONCTIONNELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65;

CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; DENDRITE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GLIA CELL; INTERNEURON; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; STELLATE CELL; TELENCEPHALON;

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EID: 34548023653     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2188     Document Type: Review

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