Corticocortical connections between visual areas 17 and 18a of the rat studied in vitro: Spatial and temporal organisation of functional synaptic responses

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 219-241

  Nowak, Lionel G ^a,b   James, Andrew C ^a,c   Bullier, Jean ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RSBS ANU   (Australia)

Author keywords

Current source density; Field potentials; Latency; Slice; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0030702911     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050218     Document Type: Article

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