Local potential connectivity in cat primary visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-28

  Stepanyants, Armen ^a   Hirsch, Judith A ^b   Martinez, Luis M ^c   Kisvárday, Zoltán F ^d,e   Ferecskó, Alex S ^f   Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^g  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Excitatory; Inhibitory; Interlaminar connectivity; Morphology; Neurogeometry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STELLATE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; CELLS, CULTURED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 36849090116     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm027     Document Type: Article

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