Microcircuits of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in layer 2/3 of mouse barrel cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3116-3134

  Avermann, Michael ^a   Tomm, Christian ^a   Mateo, Celine ^a,b   Gerstner, Wulfram ^a   Petersen, Carl C H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitatory neurons; Inhibitory neurons; Neocortex; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EXCITATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOUSE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84861658926     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00917.2011     Document Type: Article

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