Cell-type specific properties of pyramidal neurons in neocortex underlying a layout that is modifiable depending on the cortical area

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 826-836

  Groh, Alexander ^a   Meyer, Hanno S ^b   Schmidt, Eric F ^c   Heintz, Nathaniel ^c   Sakmann, Bert ^a,d   Krieger, Patrik ^e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BAC transgenic; Connectivity; Dendrite morphology; Neocortex; Pyramidal cell

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-ETS-1; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 77949388409     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp152     Document Type: Article

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