Spatiotemporal dynamics of sensory responses in layer 2/3 of rat barrel cortex measured in vivo by voltage-sensitive dye imaging combined with whole-cell voltage recordings and neuron reconstructions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1298-1309

  Petersen, Carl C H ^a   Grinvald, Amiram ^b   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Imaging; In vivo; Layer 2 3; Sensory response; Voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

DYE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0037443068     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-04-01298.2003     Document Type: Article

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