A quantitative map of the circuit of cat primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 39, 2004, Pages 8441-8453

  Binzegger, Tom ^a,b   Douglas, Rodney J ^a   Martin, Kevan A C ^a  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell reconstruction; Cell types; Connectivity rule; Interlaminar connectivity; Laminar distribution; Synaptic weights

Indexed keywords

HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CELL COUNT; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE; STELLATE CELL; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 4744358521     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1400-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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