Effects of baclofen and phaclofen on receptive field properties of rat whisker barrel neurons

Brain Research

Volumn 712, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 325-328

  Kyriazi, Harold T ^a   Carvell, George E ^b   Brumberg, Joshua C ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

cortex; inhibition; microiontophoresis; somatosensory; aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; BACLOFEN; FENTANYL; PHACLOFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; IONTOPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0029917917     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01562-0     Document Type: Article

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