Thalamocortical conduction times and stimulus-evoked responses in the rat whisker-to-barrel system

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2842-2847

  Simons, Daniel J ^a   Carvell, George E ^b   Kyriazi, Harold T ^a   Bruno, Randy M ^a,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TOPOGRAPHY; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; RATS; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 36249020375     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00800.2007     Document Type: Article

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