Interneurons of the neocortical inhibitory system

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 793-807

  Markram, Henry ^a   Toledo Rodriguez, Maria ^a   Wang, Yun ^b   Gupta, Anirudh ^a   Silberberg, Gilad ^a   Wu, Caizhi ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BRAIN REGION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; COGNITION; INTERNEURON; MAMMAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 5044222497     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1519     Document Type: Review

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