Precise temporal responses in whisker trigeminal neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 665-668

  Jones, Lauren M ^a   Lee, SooHyun ^b   Trageser, Jason C ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^b   Keller, Asaf ^a  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; RATS; REACTION TIME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 3042685404     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00031.2004     Document Type: Article

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