Morphology and dendritic maturation of developing principal neurons in the rat basolateral amygdala

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 839-854

  Ryan, Steven J ^a   Ehrlich, David E ^a   Rainnie, Donald G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal amygdala; Dendritic spine; Pyramidal; Sholl analysis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P28;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURFACE AREA; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; DENDRITE; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; DENDRITES; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84959351446     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0939-x     Document Type: Article

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