On and off domains of geniculate afferents in cat primary visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-94

  Jin, Jianzhong Z ^a   Weng, Chong ^a   Yeh, Chun I ^a,b   Gordon, Joshua A ^c,d   Ruthazer, Edward S ^d,e   Stryker, Michael P ^d   Swadlow, Harvey A ^a,b   Alonso, Jose Manuel ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENICULATE BODY; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GABA AGONISTS; GENICULATE BODIES; MUSCIMOL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 37548999706     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn2029     Document Type: Article

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