Enhanced infragranular and supragranular synaptic input onto layer 5 pyramidal neurons in a rat model of cortical dysplasia

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2926-2938

  Brill, Julia ^a   Huguenard, John R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

freeze lesion; laser scanning photostimulation; polymicrogyria; synaptic excitation; synaptic inhibition

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78349267935     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq040     Document Type: Article

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