Neocortical calretinin neurons in primates: Increase in proportion and microcircuitry structure

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Džaja, Domagoj ^a   Hladnik, Ana ^a   Bičanić, Ivana ^a   Baković, Marija ^a   Petanjek, Zdravko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Calretinin; GABA; Neocortex; Pyramidal neurons; Species differences

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALRETININ;

ARTICLE; CALRETININ NEURON; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROCORTICAL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL;

EID: 84907582239     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00103     Document Type: Article

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