Electrical stimulation of locus coeruleus strengthens the surround inhibition in layer V barrel cortex in rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 401, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 280-284

  Motaghi, Sahel ^a   Sheibani, Vahid ^a   Farazifard, Rasoul ^a   Joneidi, Hossein ^b  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Locus coeruleus; Norepinephrine; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCUS CERULEUS; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33646587355     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.03.034     Document Type: Article

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