Cross-whisker adaptation of neurons in the rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 51, 2006, Pages 13363-13372

  Katz, Yonatan ^a   Heiss, Jaime E ^a   Lampl, Ilan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

In vivo; Intracellular recording; Intracortical connections; Layer 4; Receptive field; Vibrissa; VPM

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33845760443     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4056-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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