The synaptic organization of the claustral projection to the cat's visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 39, 2010, Pages 13166-13170

  Da Costa, Nuno Maçarico ^a   Fürsinger, David ^a   Martin, Kevan A C ^a  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CLAUSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BASAL GANGLION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BASAL GANGLIA; CATS; FEMALE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77957334897     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3122-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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