Functional organization and population dynamics in the mouse primary auditory cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 353-360

  Rothschild, Gideon ^a,b   Nelken, Israel ^a,b   Mizrahi, Adi ^a,b  

^a Department of Biological Chemistry Institute of Life Sciences Edmond J Safra Campus   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; TONOTOPY;

EID: 77649130525     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2484     Document Type: Article

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