Deficits in responding to brief noise offsets in kcna1 / mice reveal a contribution of this gene to precise temporal processing seen previously only for stimulus onsets

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 351-358

  Ison, James R ^a,b   Allen, Paul D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kv1.1 ion channel subunits; Noise offset; Startle reflex inhibition

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ACOUSTIC STARTLE REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; KCNA1 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; KV1.1 POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NOISE; STARTLE REACTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84865494529     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-011-0312-1     Document Type: Article

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