Integration of synaptic responses to neighboring whiskers in rat barrel cortex in vivo

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1920-1934

  Higley, Michael J ^a   Contreras, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 15544366592     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00917.2004     Document Type: Article

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