The commissure of the inferior colliculus shapes frequency response areas in rat: An in vivo study using reversible blockade with microinjection of kynurenic acid

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 522-529

  Malmierca, Manuel S ^a   Hernández, Olga ^a   Falconi, Atilio ^a   Lopez Poveda, Enrique A ^a   Merchán, Miguel ^a   Rees, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory pathway; Frequency response area; Glutamate receptors; Single unit

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; KYNURENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BINAURAL HEARING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTERNEURON; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MONAURAL HEARING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; KYNURENIC ACID; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0348049857     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1615-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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