Enhancement of visual responsiveness by spontaneous local network activity in vivo

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 4186-4202

  Haider, Bilal ^a   Duque, Alvaro ^a   Hasenstaub, Andrea R ^a,b   Yu, Yuguo ^a   McCormick, David A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34447529352     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01114.2006     Document Type: Article

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