Scaling down of balanced excitation and inhibition by active behavioral states in auditory cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 841-850

  Zhou, Mu ^a,b   Liang, Feixue ^a,c   Xiong, Xiaorui R ^a   Li, Lu ^c   Li, Haifu ^c   Xiao, Zhongju ^c   Tao, Huizhong W ^a,b   Zhang, Li I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN; URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CELL; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATION; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND PRESSURE; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84901646912     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3701     Document Type: Article

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