Proximity of excitatory and inhibitory axon terminals adjacent to pyramidal cell bodies provides a putative basis for nonsynaptic interactions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 9878-9883

  Merchán Pérez, Angel ^a   Rodriguez, José Rodrigo ^b   Ribak, Charles E ^c   DeFelipe, Javier ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axo axonic synapses; Glutamate spillover; Interpyramidal inhibition; Perisomatic innervation; Serial electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 67649861375     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900330106     Document Type: Article

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