A blanket of inhibition: Functional inferences from dense inhibitory connectivity

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 26, Issue , 2014, Pages 96-102

  Karnani, Mahesh M ^a   Agetsuma, Masakazu ^a   Yuste, Rafael ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLANKET INHIBITION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COUNT; CLASSIFICATION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; INTERNEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 84892456790     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.12.015     Document Type: Review

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