Thalamic relay of afferent responses to 1- to 12-Hz whisker stimulation in the rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1016-1019

  Hartings, Jed A ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0031812903     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.2.1016     Document Type: Article

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