Early bilateral sensory deprivation blocks the development of coincident discharge in rat barrel cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2384-2392

  Ghoshal, Ayan ^a   Pouget, Pierre ^a   Popescu, Maria ^a   Ebner, Ford ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; Coincident discharge; JPSTH; Rats; Sensory deprivation; Septum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 61449177802     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4427-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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