Functional significance of cortical NMDA receptors in somatosensory information processing

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2627-2636

  Lo, Fu Sun ^a   Akkentli, Fatih ^a   Tsytsarev, Vassiliy ^a   Erzurumlu, Reha S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Barrel cortex; c fos; Immediate early gene expression; NMDA receptor; Whisker

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

BARREL CORTEX; C-FOS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE EXPRESSION; NMDA RECEPTOR; WHISKER;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL SUMMATION; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84888584609     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00052.2013     Document Type: Article

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