Intracellular responses and morphology of rat ventral complex of the lateral lemniscus neurons in vivo

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 498, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 295-315

  Nayagam, David A X ^a,b   Clarey, Janine C ^a   Paolini, Antonio G ^a,b,c  

^a BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Electrophysiology; INLL; Morphology; Single unit; VCLL; VNLL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CELL SHAPE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 33746794734     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21058     Document Type: Article

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