Variation in Activity State, Axonal Projection, and Position Define the Transcriptional Identity of Individual Neocortical Projection Neurons

Cell Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 441-455

  Chevée, Maxime ^a   Robertson, Johanna De Jong ^a   Cannon, Gabrielle Heather ^a   Brown, Solange Pezon ^a   Goff, Loyal Andrew ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

activity dependent plasticity; barrel cortex; corticothalamic neurons; neocortex; neuronal identity; single cell RNA sequencing; somatosensory cortex; transcriptional variation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXON; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY;

AXONS; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS;

EID: 85041194061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.12.046     Document Type: Article

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