Whisker trimming begun at birth or on postnatal day 12 affects excitatory and inhibitory receptive fields of layer IV barrel neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3987-3995

  Shoykhet, Michael ^a   Land, Peter W ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARREL NEURON; BIRTH; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAIR GROWTH; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 28044442032     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00569.2005     Document Type: Article

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