Motor cortex broadly engages excitatory and inhibitory neurons in somatosensory barrel cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2237-2248

  Kinnischtzke, Amanda K ^a,b   Simons, Daniel J ^a,b   Fanselow, Erika E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active touch; Cortical circuits; Interneurons; Optogenetics; Sensorimotor integration

Indexed keywords

CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENETICS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTOGENETICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84904294818     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht085     Document Type: Article

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