Diversity of layer 5 projection neurons in the mouse motor cortex

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Oswald, Manfred J ^a   Tantirigama, Malinda L S ^a   Sonntag, Ivo ^a   Hughes, Stephanie M ^a   Empson, Ruth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Corticocortical; Corticospinal; Corticostriatal; Corticothalamic; Electrophysiology; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOCORTICAL NEURON; CORTICOSPINAL NEURON; CORTICOSTRIATAL NEURON; CORTICOTHALAMIC NEURON; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; TEMPERATURE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 84886829795     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00174     Document Type: Article

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