Taurine as an Essential Neuromodulator during Perinatal Cortical Development

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kilb, Werner ^a   Fukuda, Atsuo ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cajal Retzius cells; cerebral cortex; GABA receptors; glycine receptors; migration; review; rodent; subplate

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040948619     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00328     Document Type: Review

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