Neuronal Functional Connection Graphs among Multiple Areas of the Rat Somatosensory System during Spontaneous and Evoked Activities

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Zippo, Antonio G ^a   Storchi, Riccardo ^b   Nencini, Sara ^a   Caramenti, Gian Carlo ^c   Valente, Maurizio ^a   Biella, Gabriele Eliseo M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GRAPH THEORY; NEURONS; RATS;

BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS; BRAIN REGIONS; CELL ASSEMBLY; CONNECTION GRAPHS; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTION; FUNDAMENTAL MODELS; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIALS; MULTIPLE AREAS; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEMS; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY;

SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURONAL FUNCTIONAL CONNECTION GRAPH; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPIKE; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMUS MEDIALIS CENTRALIS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VENTROPOSTEROLATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84879546717     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003104     Document Type: Article

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