Voltage-sensitive dye imaging of intervibrissal fur-evoked activity in the rat somatosensory cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 381, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 258-263

  Takashima, Ichiro ^a   Kajiwara, Riichi ^a   Iijima, Toshio ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Intervibrissal fur; Optical imaging; PMBSF; Vibrissae; Voltage sensitive dye

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE; DYE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; BRAIN MAPPING; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 19344367486     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.02.062     Document Type: Article

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