Parallel pathways from motor and somatosensory cortex for controlling whisker movements in mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 354-367

  Sreenivasan, Varun ^a   Karmakar, Kajari ^b,c   Rijli, Filippo M ^b,c   Petersen, Carl C H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Facial motor neurons; Optogenetics; Premotor neurons; Rabies virus; Sensorimotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; RABIES VIRUS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL TRIGEMINAL INTERPOLARIS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; AXON; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT NERVE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMALS; AXONS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERIODICITY; RETICULAR FORMATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS, SPINAL; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84922695914     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12800     Document Type: Article

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