Anisotropic distribution of thalamocortical boutons in Barrels

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 6432-6439

  Furuta, Takahiro ^a   Deschenes, Martin ^b   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEXTRANS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 79955774933     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6154-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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