Membrane potential correlates of sensory perception in mouse barrel cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1671-1677

  Sachidhanandam, Shankar ^a   Sreenivasan, Varun ^a   Kyriakatos, Alexandros ^a   Kremer, Yves ^a   Petersen, Carl C H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; 6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FACIAL NERVE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PARVALBUMINS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TETRODOTOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VALINE; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84886951662     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3532     Document Type: Article

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