Integration of Sensory Quanta in Cuneate Nucleus Neurons In Vivo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Bengtsson, Fredrik ^a   Brasselet, Romain ^b   Johansson, Roland S ^c   Arleo, Angelo ^b   Jörntell, Henrik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; HUMANS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SYNAPSES; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84873615322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056630     Document Type: Article

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