The role of cortical activity in experience-dependent potentiation and depression of sensory responses in rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 3881-3894

  Wallace, Helen ^a   Glazewski, Stanislaw ^a   Liming, Katherine ^a   Fox, Kevin ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Elvax; Inhibition; Somatosensory; Synaptic plasticity; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DURA MATER; EXPERIENCE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 0035371406     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-11-03881.2001     Document Type: Article

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