Dendroarchitecture and lateral inhibition in thalamic barreloids

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 27, 2004, Pages 6098-6105

  Lavallée, Philippe ^a   Deschênes, Martin ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barrels; Reticular thalamic nucleus; Thalamic relay cells; Ventral posterior medial nucleus; Vibrissa; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STAINING; THALAMIC BARRELOID; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 3042791830     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0973-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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