A unifying framework underlying mechanotransduction in the somatosensory system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 8520-8532

  Lottem, Eran ^a   Azouz, Rony ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRISSA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 79958288080     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6695-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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