Texture discrimination and multi-unit recording in the rat vibrissal nerve

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Albarracín, Ana L ^a   Farfán, Fernando D ^b,c   Felice, Carmelo J ^b,c   Décima, Emilio E ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional de Tucuman UNT Facultad de Medicina   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^c NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INNERVATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POWER SPECTRUM; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; RAT; RECORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSA; WOOD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FACIAL NERVE; MAXILLARY NERVE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOVEMENT; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33746532766     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-42     Document Type: Article

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