Contribution of intracolumnar layer 2/3-to-Layer 2/3 excitatory connections in shaping the response to whisker deflection in rat barrel cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 849-858

  Sarid, Leora ^a   Feldmeyer, Dirk ^b,c,d   Gidon, Albert ^a   Sakmann, Bert ^e   Segev, Idan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Juelich Aachen Research Alliance JARA Section JARA Brain   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

barrel cortex; compartmental model; cortical circuits; synaptic integration; whisker deflection

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE PLUS PHENYLEPHRINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONDUCTANCE; DENDRITIC SPINE; EXCITATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; WHISKER DEFLECTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84926622135     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht268     Document Type: Article

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