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Prenatal X-irradiation can induce severe microcephaly in the brains of offspring. The possible alteration of neuronal synapse formation was examined in such X-irradiated rats with microcephaly using the whole-cell current clamp technique. The total number of neocortical cells from prenatally (E16) X-irradiated rats decreased to 16% of the control value, while the ratio of GABA-positive/MAP2-positive...