Effects of neonatal C-fiber depletion on the integration of paired-whisker inputs in rat barrel cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-121

  Farazifard, R ^a   Kiani, R ^a   Noorbakhsh, M ^a   Esteky, H ^a,b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Capsaicin; Object recognition; Rat

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRISSA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CAPSAICIN; DENERVATION; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOCICEPTORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 16844365073     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2118-4     Document Type: Article

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