Individual auditory thalamic reticular neurons have large and cross-modal sources of cortical and thalamic inputs

Neuroscience

Volumn 193, Issue , 2011, Pages 122-131

  Yu, X J ^a   Meng, X K ^a   Xu, X X ^a   He, J ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory response; Electrical stimulation; Medial geniculate body; Oscillation; Reticularis thalami

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENERVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THALAMUS;

EID: 80052444403     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.07.040     Document Type: Article

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