Three-dimensional organization of local excitatory and inhibitory inputs to neurons in laminae III-IV of the spinal dorsal horn

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 5645-5660

  Kato, Go ^a   Kosugi, Masafumi ^a   Mizuno, Masaharu ^a   Strassman, Andrew M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84887615449     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.256016     Document Type: Article

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