Cortical influences on sizes and rapid plasticity of tactile receptive fields in the dorsal column nuclei

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 489, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-248

  Wang, Xin ^a   Wall, John T ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical lesion; Corticofugal; Lidocaine; Receptive field plasticity; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL COLUMN NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMUS; TOUCH;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; DENERVATION; LIDOCAINE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 22244465228     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20642     Document Type: Article

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