The columnar and laminar organization of inhibitory connections to neocortical excitatory cells

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 100-109

  Kätzel, Dennis ^a   Zemelman, Boris V ^b   Buetfering, Christina ^a   Wölfel, Markus ^b   Miesenböck, Gero ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RHODOPSIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 78650678849     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2687     Document Type: Article

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