Cellular mechanisms of brain state-dependent gain modulation in visual cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1331-1339

  Polack, Pierre Olivier ^a,b   Friedman, Jonathan ^a   Golshani, Peyman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GAIN MODULATION; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TREADMILL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; ORIENTATION; PARVALBUMINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84883465086     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3464     Document Type: Article

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