Opposite adaptive processing of stimulus intensity in two major nuclei of the somatosensory brainstem

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 39, 2013, Pages 15394-15400

  Mohar, Boaz ^a   Katz, Yonatan ^a   Lampl, Ilan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; HISTOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VIBRISSA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84884579884     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1886-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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