Thalamocortical input onto layer 5 pyramidal neurons measured using quantitative large-scale array tomography

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 7, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Rah, Jong Cheol ^a,b   Bas, Erhan ^a,d   Colonell, Jennifer ^a   Mishchenko, Yuriy ^c   Karsh, Bill ^a   Fetter, Richard D ^a   Myers, Eugene W ^a,e   Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a   Harris, Timothy D ^a   Isaac, John T R ^b,f  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c TOROS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^f ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Array tomography; Barrel cortex; Dendritic integration; Electron microscopy; Neural circuits; Synapse distribution; Thalamocortical synapse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRAY TOMOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; DENDRITIC INTEGRATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NEURAL CIRCUITS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE DISTRIBUTION; THALAMOCORTICAL SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ARRAY TOMOGRAPHY; BARREL CORTEX; DENDRITIC INTEGRATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NEURAL CIRCUITS; SYNAPSE DISTRIBUTION; THALAMOCORTICAL SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84888145325     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2013.00177     Document Type: Article

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