Contributions of diverse excitatory and inhibitory neurons to recurrent network activity in cerebral cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1089-1105

  Neske, Garrett T ^a   Patrick, Saundra L ^a   Connors, Barry W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Entorhinal cortex; Inhibition; Interneuron; Slice; Up state

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MICE; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PARVALBUMINS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSTATIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 84921530014     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2279-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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