What makes whiskers shake? Focus on "current flow in vibrissa motor cortex can phase-lock with exploratory rhythmic whisking in rat"

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1265-1266

  Brecht, Michael ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; DEAFFERENTATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FAST MUSCLE FIBER; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; MOTOR CORTEX; PERIODICITY; RATS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 4143088372     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00404.2004     Document Type: Editorial

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