Effects of sensory learning on intracortical synaptic transmission in the barrel cortex of mice

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-200

  Urban Ciecko, Joanna ^a   Kossut, Malgorzata ^a   Hess, Grzegorz ^b,c  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brain slices; Classical conditioning; Cortical maps; Field potential; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TRAINING; VIBRISSA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MICE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 21044439738     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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