Rapid plasticity follows whisker pairing in barrel cortex of the awake rat

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-14

  Sellien, Heike ^a   Ebner, Ford F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Awake rat; Barrel cortex; Cortical response changes; Neural plasticity; Plasticity; Whisker trimming

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33846686919     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0644-y     Document Type: Article

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