Responses of trigeminal ganglion neurons to the radial distance of contact during active vibrissal touch

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 791-802

  Szwed, Marcin ^a   Bagdasarian, Knarik ^a   Blumenfeld, Barak ^a   Barak, Omri ^a   Derdikman, Dori ^a   Ahissar, Ehud ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TOUCH; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRISSA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; KINESTHESIA; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; STIMULATION; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33644857150     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00571.2005     Document Type: Article

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