Prefrontal modulation of tactile responses in the ventrobasal thalamus of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 435, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-157

  Cao, Xiao Hua ^a   Wang, De Heng ^a   Bai, Jing ^a   Zhou, Shao Ci ^a   Zhou, Yong Di ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Prefrontal cortex; Rats; Tactile response; Ventrobasal thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; INFORMATION; MALE; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS; TOUCH;

EID: 41249100936     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.02.030     Document Type: Article

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