Motor cortex maturation is associated with reductions in recurrent connectivity among functional subpopulations and increases in intrinsic excitability

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4719-4728

  Biane, Jeremy S ^a   Scanziani, Massimo ^a,b   Tuszynski, Mark H ^a,c   Conner, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal; Development; Excitability; Motor system; Neural circuits; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITABILITY; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATURATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FISCHER 344 RAT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEWBORN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 84925064782     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2792-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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