Modified sensory processing in the barrel cortex of the adult mouse after chronic whisker stimulation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 2130-2147

  Quairiaux, Charles ^a   Armstrong James, Michael ^b   Welker, Egbert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DBCM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 33947182906     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00338.2006     Document Type: Article

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