Somatosensory cortical efferent neurons of the awake rabbit: Latencies to activation via supra- and subthreshold receptive fields

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1753-1759

  Swadlow, Harvey A ^a   Hicks, T Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

EID: 0029863202     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.4.1753     Document Type: Article

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