Short-term plasticity during intrathalamic augmenting responses in decorticated cats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3778-3795

  Steriade, Mircea ^a   Timofeev, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

augmenting; high threshold; intracellular; low threshold; plasticity; thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; DECORTICATION; DEPOLARIZATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0031008194     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-10-03778.1997     Document Type: Article

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