The impact of an LGNd impulse on the awake visual cortex: Synaptic dynamics and the sustained/transient distinction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5018-5028

  Stoelzel, Carl R ^a   Bereshpolova, Yulia ^a   Gusev, Alexander G ^a   Swadlow, Harvey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGNd); Striate cortex; Synaptic depression; Synaptic dynamics; Synaptic plasticity; Thalamocortical; Thalamus; Visual

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENICULATE BODY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENICULATE BODIES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RABBITS; REACTION TIME; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 44949196766     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4726-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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