Neurotransmitter release at the thalamocortical synapse instructs barrel formation but not axon patterning in the somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6183-6196

  Narboux Nême, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Evrard, Alexis ^d,e,h   Ferezou, Isabelle ^e   Erzurumlu, Reha S ^f   Kaeser, Pascal S ^g   Lainé, Jeanne ^a,b,c   Rossier, Jean ^e   Ropert, Nicole ^d,e,h   Südhof, Thomas C ^g   Gaspar, Patricia ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUT DU FER À MOULIN   (France)

^d Laboratory of Neurophysiology and New Microscopies   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIM GENE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WALKING;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84860340301     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0343-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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