Subthreshold receptive fields and baseline excitability of 'silent' S1 callosal neurons in awake rabbits: Contributions of AMPA/kainate and NMDA receptors

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 403-409

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AMPA; Neocortex; NMDA; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EFFERENT NERVE; EXCITABILITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IONTOPHORESIS; MICROELECTRODE; MICROPIPETTE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; NEURONS, EFFERENT; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030740808     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005710     Document Type: Article

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