Responses of infragranular neurons in the rat primary somatosensory cortex to forepaw and hindpaw tactile stimuli

Neuroscience

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1083-1092

  Moxon, K A ^a   Hale, L L ^a   Aguilar, J ^b   Foffani, G ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLÉJICOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

neurophysiology; receptive field; somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREFOOT; FORELIMB; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HINDLIMB; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 53949090780     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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