The effects of peripheral deafferentation on spontaneously bursting neurons in the somatosensory cortex of waking cats

Brain Research

Volumn 750, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 109-121

  Webster, Harry H ^b   Salimi, Iran ^a   Myasnikov, Alexandre A ^a   Dykes, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

activity pattern; cortical reorganization; extracellular recording; neuronal plasticity; single unit activity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0031059602     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01338-8     Document Type: Article

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