Cell type-specific three-dimensional structure of thalamocortical circuits in a column of rat vibrissal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2375-2391

  Oberlaender, Marcel ^a   De Kock, Christiaan P J ^b   Bruno, Randy M ^c   Ramirez, Alejandro ^c   Meyer, Hanno S ^a   Dercksen, Vincent J ^d   Helmstaedter, Moritz ^e   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

barrel cortex; dendrite morphology; in vivo spiking; neural network; VPM innervation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; DENDRITE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84859217557     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr317     Document Type: Article

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