Sensory input drives multiple intracellular information streams in somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 10872-10884

  Alenda, Andrea ^a,c   Molano Mazón, Manuel ^a   Panzeri, Stefano ^b   Maravall, Miguel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; STIMULUS; SYNAPSE; VIBRISSA; WHOLE CELL; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; INNERVATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULATION; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77956215848     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6174-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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