Clonally related visual cortical neurons show similar stimulus feature selectivity

Nature

Volumn 486, Issue 7401, 2012, Pages 118-121

  Li, Ye ^a   Lu, Hui ^a   Cheng, Pei Lin ^a   Ge, Shaoyu ^b   Xu, Huatai ^c   Shi, Song Hai ^c   Dan, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 26; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

CALCIUM; MATURATION; MUTATION; NEUROLOGY; ONTOGENY; PROTEIN; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GAP JUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CLONE CELLS; CONNEXINS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861956971     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11110     Document Type: Article

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