Postnatal development of synaptic transmission in local networks of L5A pyramidal neurons in rat somatosensory cortex

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 585, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-116

  Frick, Andreas ^a   Feldmeyer, Dirk ^a,b   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LATENT PERIOD; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DECAY TIME CONSTANT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; SYNAPTOSOME; VIBRISSA;

AGING; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36249013711     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.141788     Document Type: Article

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