Semilunar granule cells: Glutamatergic neurons in the rat dentate gyrus with axon collaterals in the inner molecular layer

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 50, 2007, Pages 13756-13761

  Williams, Philip A ^a   Larimer, Phillip ^a   Gao, Yuan ^a   Strowbridge, Ben W ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Dentate hilus; Epilepsy; EPSP; Hippocampus; Mossy cell; Two photon imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPOLARIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; GRANULE CELL; INTERNEURON; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INFRARED RAYS; INTERNEURONS; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 37249000787     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4053-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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