Local connections of excitatory neurons to corticothalamic neurons in the rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 50, 2011, Pages 18223-18236

  Tanaka, Yasuhiro R ^a,d   Tanaka, Yasuyo H ^a,d   Konno, Michiteru ^a   Fujiyama, Fumino ^a,b   Sonomura, Takahiro ^c   Okamoto Furuta, Keiko ^a   Kameda, Hiroshi ^a,e   Hioki, Hiroyuki ^a   Furuta, Takahiro ^a   Nakamura, Kouichi C ^a,f   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEURONAL TRACT TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL TRACT-TRACERS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 83455199163     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3139-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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