Thalamic NMDA receptor function is necessary for patterning of the thalamocortical somatosensory map and for sensorimotor behaviors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 12001-12014

  Arakawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Suzuki, Ayumi ^b,c   Zhao, Shuxin ^a   Tsytsarev, Vassiliy ^a   Lo, Fu Sun ^a   Hayashi, Yu ^d   Itohara, Shigeyoshi ^d   Iwasato, Takuji ^b,c   Erzurumlu, Reha S ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrel cortex imaging; Barreloids; Barrels; Glutamate; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

BARREL CORTEX IMAGING; BARRELOIDS; BARRELS; GLUTAMATE; PATTERN FORMATION;

ANIMALS; CONNECTOME; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84906902852     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1663-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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