State changes rapidly modulate cortical neuronal responsiveness

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 36, 2007, Pages 9607-9622

  Hasenstaub, Andrea ^a,b   Sachdev, Robert N S ^a   McCormick, David A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Background activity; Cortex; Intracellular; Network; Noise; Response; Up states; Vibrissa (whisker)

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 34848916358     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2184-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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