Prefrontal and auditory input to intercalated neurons of the amygdala

Cell Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1435-1442

  Strobel, Cornelia ^a   Marek, Roger ^a   Gooch, Helen M ^a   Sullivan, Robert K P ^a   Sah, Pankaj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; INNERVATION; INTERCALATED NERVE CELL; LATERAL INTERCALATED NERVE CELL; MEDIAL INTERCALATED NERVE CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REINFORCEMENT; THALAMUS;

EID: 84924539999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.02.008     Document Type: Article

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