Response transformation and receptive-field synthesis in the lemniscal trigeminothalamic circuit

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1556-1570

  Minnery, Brandon S ^a   Bruno, Randy M ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RODENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION;

EID: 0141453731     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00111.2003     Document Type: Article

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