Receptive Field Plasticity Profoundly Alters the Cutaneous Parallel Fiber Synaptic Input to Cerebellar Interneurons In Vivo

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 29, 2003, Pages 9620-9631

  Jörntell, Henrik ^a,b   Ekerot, Carl Fredrik ^a  

^a BMC F10   (Sweden)

^b Biomedical Center F10   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Basket cells; Cerebellum; Climbing fibers; Parallel fibers; Plasticity; Stellate cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASKET CELL; CAT; CEREBELLUM; CLIMBING FIBER; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PARALLEL FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STELLATE CELL; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FORELIMB; INNERVATION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN; STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; CEREBELLUM; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FORELIMB; INTERNEURONS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SKIN; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0142213163     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-29-09620.2003     Document Type: Article

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