Synaptic Responses to Whisker Deflections in Rat Barrel Cortex as a Function of Cortical Layer and Stimulus Intensity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3985-3998

  Wilent, W Bryan ^a   Contreras, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Barrel; Cortex; EPSP; In vivo; Inhibition; Integration; Intracellular; IPSP; Synaptic; Velocity; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRANULE CELL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 2142770292     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5782-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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