Extrinsic and local glutamatergic inputs of the rat hippocampal CA1 area differentially innervate pyramidal cells and interneurons

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1379-1391

  Takács, Virág T ^a   Klausberger, Thomas ^b,c   Somogyi, Peter ^a,b,c   Freund, Tamás F ^a   Gulyás, Attila I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine; Electron microscopy; Feed back inhibition; Feed forward inhibition; GABA

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRATUM LACUNOSUM MOLECULARE; STRATUM ORIENS; STRATUM PYRAMIDALE; STRATUM RADIATUM; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTERNEURONS; MALE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84861346111     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20974     Document Type: Article

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