Principalis, oralis and interpolaris responses to whisker movements provoked by air jets in rats

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1569-1573

  Moreno, Angel ^a   Garcia Gonzalez, Victor ^a   Sanchez Jimenez, Abel ^a   Panetsos, Fivos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extracellular recordings; Somatosensory; Trigeminal pathway; Vibrissa

Indexed keywords

AIR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE WAVE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AIR; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 28944452627     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000180144.99267.73     Document Type: Article

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