Dendritic organization of olfactory inputs to medial amygdala neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 38, 2015, Pages 13020-13028

  Keshavarzi, Sepideh ^a,b   Power, John M ^a   Albers, Eva H H ^a   Sullivan, Robert K S ^a   Sah, Pankaj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Emotion; Mating; Olfaction; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN; 2,3-DIOXO-6-NITRO-7-SULFAMOYLBENZO(F)QUINOXALINE; 2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHOPENTANOIC ACID; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1; PICROTOXIN; QUINOXALINE DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; VALINE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; OLFACTORY BULB; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CORTICOMEDIAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; DENDRITES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PICROTOXIN; QUINOXALINES; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN; VALINE;

EID: 84942156370     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0627-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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