Intracortical circuits of pyramidal neurons reflect their long-range axonal targets

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7233, 2009, Pages 1133-1136

  Brown, Solange P ^a   Hestrin, Shaul ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELL ORGANELLE; NEUROLOGY; PROBABILITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL TYPE; DENDRITIC CELL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEEDING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 61349185681     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07658     Document Type: Article

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