Cooperative synapse formation in the neocortex

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

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 16463-16468

  Fares, Tarec ^a   Stepanyants, Armen ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Connectivity; Morphology; Potential synapse; Pyramidal cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349504406     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0813265106     Document Type: Article

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