Canonical Organization of Layer 1 Neuron-Led Cortical Inhibitory and Disinhibitory Interneuronal Circuits

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2114-2126

  Lee, Alice J ^a   Wang, Guangfu ^a   Jiang, Xiaolong ^a   Johnson, Seraphina M ^a   Hoang, Elizabeth T ^a   Lanté, Fabien ^a   Stornetta, Ruth L ^a   Beenhakker, Mark P ^a   Shen, Ying ^b   Julius Zhu, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

attention; circuits; cortex; disinhibition; inhibition; interneurons; salient selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; ELONGATED NEUROGLIAFORM CELL; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SINGLE BOUQUET CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84938652000     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu020     Document Type: Article

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