Parallel mitral and tufted cell pathways route distinct odor information to different targets in the olfactory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 7970-7985

  Igarashi, Kei M ^a,c   Ieki, Nao ^a,b   An, Myungho ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Yukie ^a   Nagayama, Shin ^d   Kobayakawa, Ko ^e   Kobayakawa, Reiko ^e   Tanifuji, Manabu ^c   Sakano, Hitoshi ^e   Chen, Wei R ^d   Mori, Kensaku ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BREATHING; CELL DENSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MITRAL CELL; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE; TUFTED CELL;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BUTYRATES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; ROC CURVE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SMELL; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84861851480     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0154-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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