The role of thalamic inputs in surround receptive fields of barrel neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 5926-5934

  Kwegyir Afful, Ernest E ^a   Bruno, Randy M ^b,c   Simons, Daniel J ^b   Keller, Asaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Max Planck Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rat; Somatosensory cortex; Thalamocortical and corticofugal projections; Thalamus; Trigeminal; Vibrissa (whisker)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 21344433871     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1360-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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