Imaging the spatio-temporal dynamics of supragranular activity in the rat somatosensory cortex in response to stimulation of the paws

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Morales Botello, M L ^a   Aguilar, J ^a   Foffani, G ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLÉJICOS   (Spain)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DYNAMICS; FOREFOOT; HINDLIMB; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPRAGRANULAR SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VELOCITY; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; FORELIMB; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

RATTUS;

EID: 84864032918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040174     Document Type: Article

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