Multiday recordings from olfactory bulb neurons in awake freely moving rats: Spatially and temporally organized variability in odorant response properties

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 221-256

  Bhalla, Upinder S ^a,b   Bower, James M ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology HHMI   (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Awake behaving; Chronic implant; Distributed representation; Mitral tufted cell; Multiday recording; Olfaction; Olfactory bulb; Stereo electrode

Indexed keywords

ODORS; RATS;

AWAKE BEHAVING; CHRONIC IMPLANT; DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATION; FREELY MOVING; MITRAL/TUFTED CELL; MULTIDAY RECORDING; OLFACTION; OLFACTORY BULBS; RESPONSE PROPERTIES; STEREO ELECTRODE;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MITRAL CELL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SMELLING;

EID: 0030878137     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008819818970     Document Type: Article

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