Effects of neonatal C-fiber depletion on discrimination of principal and adjacent whisker stimulation within rat individual cortical barrels

Brain Research

Volumn 1015, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 129-135

  Kiani, Roozbeh ^a   Farazifard, Rasoul ^a   Noorbakhsh, S Mohammad ^b   Esteky, Hossein ^a,b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Capsaicin; Rat; Sensory systems; Somatosensory cortex and thalamocortical relationship; Whisker discrimination

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIBRISSA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CAPSAICIN; DENERVATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; ROC CURVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 3042604733     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.04.057     Document Type: Article

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