Exploratory whisking by rat is not phase locked to the hippocampal theta rhythm

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6518-6522

  Berg, Rune W ^a,c   Whitmer, Diane ^a,b   Kleinfeld, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electromyogram; EMG; Hippocampal function; Hippocampus; Motion; Motor; Motor activity; Movement; Oscillator; Rat; Theta rhythm; Vibrissa; Whisker; Whisking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY CORTEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THETA RHYTHM; TRAINING; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INNERVATION; LONG EVANS RAT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THETA RHYTHM; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33745767138     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0190-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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