Responses to tactile stimulation in deep cerebellar nucleus neurons result from recurrent activation in multiple pathways

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 704-717

  Rowland, Nathan C ^a   Jaeger, Dieter ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACE; GRANULE CELL; INFERIOR OLIVE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LIDOCAINE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 39149131329     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01100.2007     Document Type: Article

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