Septal neurons in barrel cortex derive their receptive field input from the lemniscal pathway

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4089-4095

  Furuta, Takahiro ^a   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a,b   Deschênes, Martin ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THALAMUS; VIBRISSA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 65249089881     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5393-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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