Slow recovery from excitation of thalamic reticular nucleus neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 980-987

  Yu, Xiong Jie ^a   Xu, Xin Xiu ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   He, Shigang ^a   He, Jufang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 61349096008     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91130.2008     Document Type: Article

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