Spiking in primary somatosensory cortex during natural whisking in awake head-restrained rats is cell-type specific

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages 16446-16450

  De Kock, Christiaan P J ^a,b   Sakmann, Bert ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action potential; Barrel cortex; Identified cells; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE WAVE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIBRISSAE; WAKEFULNESS;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349518955     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904143106     Document Type: Article

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