Beyond columnar organization: Cell type- and target layer-specific principles of horizontal axon projection patterns in rat vibrissal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4450-4468

  Narayanan, Rajeevan T ^a   Egger, Robert ^a,b   Johnson, Andrew S ^c   Mansvelder, Huibert D ^d   Sakmann, Bert ^c   De Kock, Christiaan P J ^d   Oberlaender, Marcel ^a,c,e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Excitatory; Intracortical unit; Multiwhisker; Transcolumnar

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; AXON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NEWBORN; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; WISTAR RAT;

BIOCYTIN; LYSINE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; LYSINE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84946768242     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv053     Document Type: Article

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