Chronic suppression of activity in barrel field cortex downregulates sensory responses in contralateral barrel field cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3342-3356

  Li, Lu ^a   Rema, V ^a,b   Ebner, Ford F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL; URETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARREL FIELD CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMISPHERE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROTOXINS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 27144468696     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00357.2005     Document Type: Article

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