Sub- and suprathreshold receptive field properties of pyramidal neurones in layers 5A and 5B of rat somatosensory barrel cortex

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 556, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 601-622

  Manns, Ian D ^a   Sakmann, Bert ^a   Brecht, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIKARYON; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL BODY; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; NERVE FIBER;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 2342466722     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.053132     Document Type: Article

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