Robust but delayed thalamocortical activation of dendritic-targeting inhibitory interneurons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2187-2192

  Tan, Zhenjun ^a   Hu, Hang ^a   Huang, Z Josh ^b   Agmon, Ariel ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Dendrites; Feedforward inhibition; Neocortex; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HORMONE ACTION; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOCORTEX; THALAMUS;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 41149137102     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710628105     Document Type: Article

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