Cellular organization of cortical barrel columns is whisker-specific

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 19113-19118

  Meyer, Hanno S ^a,b   Egger, Robert ^c,d   Guest, Jason M ^a   Foerster, Rita ^b   Reissl, Stefan ^c   Oberlaender, Marcel ^a,c,e  

^a MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELLULAR ORGANIZATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEREOTYPY; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA;

BARREL CORTEX; GAD67; NEUN; SOMA COUNTS; VPM;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84888118109     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312691110     Document Type: Article

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