Layer- and cell-type-specific effects of neonatal whisker-trimming in adult rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 4380-4385

  Lee, Soo Hyun ^a   Land, Peter W ^a   Simons, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TOUCH; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 34447540240     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01217.2006     Document Type: Article

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