Rapid Arrival and Integration of Ascending Sensory Information in Layer 1 Nonpyramidal Neurons and Tuft Dendrites of Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons of the Neocortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1272-1279

  Zhu, Yinghua ^a   Zhu, J Julius ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Excitation; Inhibition; Rat; Somatosensory; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING SENSORY INFORMATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VIVO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; NEOCORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRISSA; WHISKER EVOKED RESPONSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 1242336769     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4805-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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