Responses of Trigeminal Ganglion Neurons during Natural Whisking Behaviors in the Awake Rat

Neuron

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 117-133

  Leiser, Steven C ^a   Moxon, Karen A ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHRONICITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL GANGLION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSAE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33845716901     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.10.036     Document Type: Article

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