Processing of Periodic Whisker Deflections by Neurons in the Ventroposterior Medial and Thalamic Reticular Nuclei

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3087-3094

  Hartings, Jed A ^a,b   Temereanca, Simona ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

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

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; NEURONS; POSTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0242593725     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00469.2003     Document Type: Article

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