Organization of inhibitory feed-forward synapses from the dorsal to the ventral cochlear nucleus in the cat: A quantitative analysis of endings by vesicle morphology

Hearing Research

Volumn 198, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 99-115

  Munirathinam, Subramani ^a   Ostapoff, E Michael ^a   Gross, Julia ^a   Kempe, G Steven ^a   Dutton, Jeffrey A ^a   Morest, D Kent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory center surround; Axonal tracers; Convolution filters; Imaging; Local circuits; Synaptic morphometry; Temporal processing; Tuberculo ventral tract; Vesicle morphology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CATS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE ENDINGS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 8844285310     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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