Analysis of the role of inhibition in shaping responses to sinusoidally amplitude-modulated signals in the inferior colliculus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1686-1701

  Burger, R Michael ^a   Pollak, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PHACLOFEN; STRYCHNINE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; IONTOPHORESIS; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TIME;

EID: 0031791197     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.4.1686     Document Type: Article

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