Stereotypical bouton clustering of individual neurons in cat primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 45, 2007, Pages 12242-12254

  Binzegger, Tom ^a,b   Douglas, Rodney J ^a   Martin, Kevan A C ^a  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon; Bouton patches; Cluster algorithm; HRP; Micro circuit; Patch model; Trivariate Gaussian mixture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOUTON CLUSTER; CAT; CELL DENSITY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATIC CELL; TECHNIQUE; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 36048979261     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3753-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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