Petilla terminology: Nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 557-568

  Ascoli, Giorgio A ^a   Alonso Nanclares, Lidia ^c   Anderson, Stewart A ^c   Barrionuevo, German ^c   Benavides Piccione, Ruth ^c   Burkhalter, Andreas ^c   Buzsáki, György ^c   Cauli, Bruno ^c   DeFelipe, Javier ^c   Fairén, Alfonso ^c   Feldmeyer, Dirk ^c   Fishell, Gord ^c   Fregnac, Yves ^c   Freund, Tamas F ^c   Gardner, Daniel ^c   Gardner, Esther P ^c   Goldberg, Jesse H ^c   Helmstaedter, Moritz ^c   Hestrin, Shaul ^c   Karube, Fuyuki ^c   Kisvárday, Zoltán F ^c   Lambolez, Bertrand ^c   Lewis, David A ^c   Marin, Oscar ^c   Markram, Henry ^c   Mũoz, Alberto ^c   Packer, Adam ^c   Petersen, Carl C H ^c   Rockland, Kathleen S ^c   Rossier, Jean ^c   Rudy, Bernardo ^c   Somogyi, Peter ^c   Staiger, Jochen F ^c   Tamas, Gabor ^c   Thomson, Alex M ^c   Toledo Rodriguez, Maria ^c   Wang, Yun ^c   West, David C ^c   Yuste, Rafael ^b   more..

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; DENDRITE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERNEURON; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 45749115353     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2402     Document Type: Review

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