Subcolumnar dendritic and axonal organization of spiny stellate and star pyramid neurons within a barrel in rat somatosensory cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 876-889

  Egger, Veronica ^a,b   Nevian, Thomas ^a,c   Bruno, Randy M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cortical column; Dendritic symmetry; Interbarrel projection; Intrabarrel confinement; Minicolumn; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINY STELLATE NERVE CELL; STAR PYRAMID NERVE CELL; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 40849111482     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm126     Document Type: Article

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