Layer-specific regulation of cortical neurons by interhemispheric inhibition

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Palmer, Lucy M ^a   Schulz, Jan M ^b   Larkum, Matthew E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Cortical pyramidal neurons; Dendrite; GABAb; Interhemispheric inhibition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879111293     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.23545     Document Type: Article

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