Layer 6 corticothalamic neurons activate a cortical output layer, layer 5a

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 29, 2014, Pages 9656-9664

  Kim, Juhyun ^a   Matney, Chanel J ^a   Blankenship, Aaron ^b   Hestrin, Shaul ^b   Brown, Solange P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticothalamic; Inhibitory interneurons; Layer 4; Layer 5; Somatosensory cortex; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTHALAMIC; INHIBITORY INTERNEURONS; LAYER 4; LAYER 5; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLERA TOXIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; INTEGRASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, NEUROTENSIN; RHODOPSIN; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; THALAMUS;

EID: 84904317557     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1325-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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