Convergence of cranial visceral afferents within the solitary tract nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 12886-12895

  McDougall, Stuart J ^a   Peters, James H ^a   Andresen, Michael C ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POLYSYNAPTIC REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 70350442541     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3491-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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