Barrels and septa: Separate circuits in rat barrel field cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 408, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 489-505

  Kim, Uhnoh ^a,c   Ebner, Ford F ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticocortical connections; Intracortical connections; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0033553787     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990614)408:4<489::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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