Thalamocortical Angular Tuning Domains within Individual Barrels of Rat Somatosensory Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 29, 2003, Pages 9565-9574

  Bruno, Randy M ^a   Khatri, Vivek ^b   Land, Peter W ^b   Simons, Daniel J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Barrel; Local circuit; Minicolumn; Somatosensory; Thalamocortical; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR TURNING DOMAIN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MICROELECTRODE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0142244147     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-29-09565.2003     Document Type: Article

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