The subcellular organization of neocortical excitatory connections

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7233, 2009, Pages 1142-1145

  Petreanu, Leopoldo ^a   Mao, Tianyi ^a   Sternson, Scott M ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL RHODOPSIN 2; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ORGANELLE; GENE EXPRESSION; MAPPING; NEUROLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CELL SPECIFICITY; DENDRITE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; TARGET CELL; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; MICE; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RHODOPSIN; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 61349194996     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07709     Document Type: Article

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