Long-term potentiation in the neonatal rat barrel cortex in vivo

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 9511-9516

  An, Shuming ^a   Yang, Jenq Wei ^a   Sun, Haiyan ^a   Kilb, Werner ^a   Luhmann, Heiko J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; VIBRISSA; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VIBRISSAE; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84863700472     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1212-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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