Encoding of stimulus frequency and sensor motion in the posterior medial thalamic nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 681-689

  Masri, Radi ^a   Bezdudnaya, Tatiana ^a   Trageser, Jason C ^b   Keller, Asaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL TRIGEMINAL INTERPOLARIS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; MOTION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; VIBRISSAE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 55249094787     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01322.2007     Document Type: Article

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