The vibrissal system as a model of thalamic operations

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 149, Issue , 2005, Pages 31-40

  Deschênes, Martin ^a   Timofeeva, Elena ^a   Lavallée, Philippe ^a   Dufresne, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANESTHESIA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENDRITE; EVOKED RESPONSE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RODENT; SENSATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA; ZONA INCERTA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; POSTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; TOUCH; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 26844568907     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(05)49003-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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