A gradual depth-dependent change in connectivity features of supragranular pyramidal cells in rat barrel cortex

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1317-1337

  Staiger, Jochen F ^a   Bojak, Ingo ^b,c   Miceli, Stéphanie ^c   Schubert, Dirk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barrel related column; Caged glutamate; Cortical microcircuits; Lemniscal system; Paralemniscal system

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE TRACT; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLUTAMIC ACID; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84894248545     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0726-8     Document Type: Article

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