Diminished perisomatic GABAergic terminals on cortical neurons adjacent to amyloid plaques

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Garcia Marin, Virginia ^a,b   Blazquez Llorca, Lidia ^a,b   Rodriguez, José Rodrigo ^a,b   Boluda, Susana ^c   Muntane, Gerard ^c   Ferrer, Isidro ^c   DeFelipe, Javier ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amyloid beta peptide; Axo somatic synapses; Diffuse and neuritic plaques; Electron microscopy; Epilepsy; GABAergic perisomatic innervation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053131543     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.05.028.2009     Document Type: Article

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