Target-specific properties of thalamocortical synapses onto layer 4 of mouse primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 46, 2014, Pages 15455-15465

  Kloc, Michelle ^a   Maffei, Arianna ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

LGN; Microcircuitry; Optogenetics; Synapses; Thalamocortical; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEPRESSION; FAST SPIKING NEURON; FEMALE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULATION; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GENICULATE BODY; IN VITRO STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; OPTOGENETICS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84909956678     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2595-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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