Corticofugal Gating of Auditory Information in the Thalamus: An In Vivo Intracellular Recording Study

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3060-3069

  Yu, Yan Qin ^a   Xiong, Ying ^a,c,d   Chan, Ying Shing ^b   He, Jufang ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corticofugal modulation; Electrical stimulation; EPSP; Excitatory postsynaptic potential; In vivo intracellular recording; Inhibitory postsynaptic potential; IPSP; Low threshold calcium spike; The medial geniculate body

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHANNEL GATING; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; GUINEA PIG; HISTOLOGY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BIOTIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GENICULATE BODIES; GUINEA PIGS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

EID: 1642546600     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4897-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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