Mapping functional connectivity in barrel-related columns reveals layer- and cell type-specific microcircuits

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-119

  Schubert, Dirk ^a   Kötter, Rolf ^a,b   Staiger, Jochen F ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Caged glutamate; Columnar modules; Excitatory spiny neurons; Microcircuits

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

BRAIN CORTEX; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSCIENCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RODENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STELLATE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RODENTIA; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIBRISSAE;

RODENTIA;

EID: 34548591072     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-007-0147-z     Document Type: Review

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