Effects of noradrenaline on rate-level function of auditory cortex neurons: Is there a 'gating' effect of noradrenaline?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 361-372

  Manunta, Yves ^a   Edeline, Jean Marc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Intensity function; Iontophoresis; Neuromodulator; Noradrenaline; Rat; Threshold

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTRODE; IONTOPHORESIS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BICUCULLINE; BRAIN MAPPING; CALIBRATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031962270     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050290     Document Type: Article

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