Stimulus-dependent expression of immediate-early genes in rat somatosensory cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 145-153

  Melzer, Peter ^a,b   Steiner, Heinz ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

barrel; c fos; sensory stimulation; whisker; zif268

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; GENES, FOS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0030887907     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970331)380:1<145::AID-CNE11>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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