Spike-timing in primary sensory neurons: A model of somatosensory transduction in the rat

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 185-194

  Mitchinson, Ben ^a   Arabzadeh, Ehsan ^b   Diamond, Mathew E ^b   Prescott, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RATS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

SENSORY NEURONS; SOMATOSENSORY TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE-TIMING;

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INNERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STIMULATION; TIME; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 40149105076     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-007-0208-7     Document Type: Article

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