Mesoscale transcranial spontaneous activity mapping in GCaMP3 transgenic mice reveals extensive reciprocal connections between areas of somatomotor cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 15931-15946

  Vanni, Matthieu P ^a   Murphy, Timothy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Connectome; Cortical stimulation; Optogenetic; Resting state; Tracing; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; FLAVOPROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NEURONAL CALCIUM SENSOR; PROTEIN S100B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FORELIMB; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GCAMP3 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HINDLIMB; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACORTICAL MICROSTIMULATION MAPPING; INTRINSIC OPTICAL SIGNAL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIBRISSA; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING; 129 MOUSE; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM SIGNALING; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84911885642     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1818-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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