Synaptic connectivity between rat striatal spiny projection neurons in vivo: Unexpected multiple somatic innervation in the context of overall sparse proximal connectivity

Basal Ganglia

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 93-108

  Oorschot, Dorothy E ^a,b   Lin, Naili ^a,b   Cooper, Benjamin H ^a,b,c   Reynolds, John N J ^a,b   Sun, Huayu ^a,b,d   Wickens, Jeffery R ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Somatic synaptic innervation; Spiny projection neurons; Striatum; Synapses

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNERVATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATIC SYNAPTIC INNERVATION; SPINE; SPINY PROJECTION NEURON; SYNAPSE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84878445021     PISSN: 22105336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baga.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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