Firing-pattern-dependent specificity of cortical excitatory feed-forward subnetworks

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 44, 2008, Pages 11186-11195

  Otsuka, Takeshi ^a   Kawaguchi, Yasuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connection specificity; Cortex; Extracortical projection; Firing pattern; Interlaminar connection; Pyramidal cell

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES;

EID: 56149095043     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1921-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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