Dynamic receptive fields of reconstructed pyramidal cells in layers 3 and 2 of rat somatosensory barrel cortex

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 553, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 243-265

  Brecht, Michael ^a   Roth, Arnd ^a   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL BODY; DENDRITE; EVOKED RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE TRACT; RESPONSE TIME; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SOMATOSENSORY BARREL CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0345327767     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.044222     Document Type: Article

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