Direction- and distance-dependent interareal connectivity of pyramidal cell subpopulations in the rat frontal cortex

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 7, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Ueta, Yoshifumi ^a,b   Hirai, Yasuharu ^a,b,d   Otsuka, Takeshi ^a,b,c   Kawaguchi, Yasuo ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commissural; Corticopontine; Corticostriatal; Corticothalamic; Motor cortex; Orbitofrontal cortex; Perirhinal cortex; Posterior parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMMISSURAL; CORTICOPONTINE; CORTICOSTRIATAL; CORTICOTHALAMIC; FRONTAL LOBE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

COMMISSURAL; CORTICOPONTINE; CORTICOSTRIATAL; CORTICOTHALAMIC; MOTOR CORTEX; ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84887012416     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00164     Document Type: Article

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