Sensory learning differentially affects GABAergic tonic currents in excitatory neurons and fast spiking interneurons in layer 4 of mouse barrel cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 746-754

  Urban Ciecko, Joanna ^a   Kossut, Małgorzata ^b   Mozrzymas, Jerzy W ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR DELTA; NIPECOTIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GABA AGENTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INTERNEURONS; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; TETRODOTOXIN; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77955962783     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00988.2009     Document Type: Article

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