Cerebellar Golgi cells in the rat: Receptive fields and timing of responses to facial stimulation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2621-2634

  Vos, Bart P ^a   Volny Luraghi, Antonia ^a   De Schutter, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Inhibitory interneurons; Mossy fibre; Parallel fibre; Somatosensory system; Trigeminal stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; GOLGI COMPLEX; GRANULE CELL; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032817094     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00678.x     Document Type: Article

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