Adaptive changes in the somatotopic properties of individual thalamic neurons immediately following microlesions in connected regions of the nucleus cuneatus

Synapse

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-14

  Alloway, Kevin D ^a   Aaron, Gloster B ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosscorrelation analysis; Nucleus cuneatus; Receptive fields; Somatotopic reorganization; Synaptic plasticity; Ventrobasal thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SKIN STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030052520     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199601)22:1<1::AID-SYN1>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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