The relay of high-frequency sensory signals in the whisker-to-barreloid pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 6778-6787

  Deschênes, Martin ^a,b   Timofeeva, Elena ^a   Lavallée, Philippe ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barrel; Medial lemniscus; Thalamic relay cells; Trigeminal sensory nucleus; Ventral posterior medial nucleus; Vibrissa; Vibrissa primary afferents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LATENT PERIOD; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRATION; VIBRISSA; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0043135246     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-17-06778.2003     Document Type: Article

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