Weaker feedforward inhibition accounts for less pronounced thalamocortical response transformation in mouse vs. rat barrels

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2378-2392

  Kwegyir Afful, E E ^a,b   Kyriazi, H T ^a   Simons, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical circuits; Thalamus; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; MALE; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

CORTICAL CIRCUITS; THALAMUS; WHISKERS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84887572483     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00574.2012     Document Type: Article

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