Sensory inputs from whisking movements modify cortical whisker maps visualized with functional magnetic resonance imaging

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1314-1325

  De Celis Alonso, Benito ^a   Lowe, Andrew S ^a,c   Dear, John P ^b   Lee, Kalok C ^a   Williams, Steven C R ^a   Finnerty, Gerald T ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortex; fMRI; Negative BOLD; Rat; Somatosensory; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 44449150969     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm163     Document Type: Article

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