The influence of vibrissal somatosensory processing in rat superior colliculus on prey capture

Neuroscience

Volumn 176, Issue , 2011, Pages 318-327

  Favaro, P D N ^a   Gouvea T S ^a   de Oliveira, S R ^a   Vautrelle, N ^b   Redgrave, P ^b   Comoli, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Predatory behaviour; Sensorimotor integration; Somatosensory information; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VIBRISSA; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 79851515456     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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