Effects of aging on paired-pulse behavior of rat somatosensory cortical neurons

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1208-1216

  David Jürgens, Marianne ^a   Dinse, Hubert R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Cortical excitability; Intracortical inhibition; Rat; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PAIRED PULSE BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 77951131819     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp185     Document Type: Article

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