A Cellular Resolution Map of Barrel Cortex Activity during Tactile Behavior

Neuron

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 783-799

  Peron, Simon P ^a   Freeman, Jeremy ^a   Iyer, Vijay ^a   Guo, Caiying ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; CALCIUM; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 2; GT(ROSA)26SOR NON-CODING RNA, MOUSE; PHOTOPROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; LASER MICROSCOPY; LEARNING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VIBRISSA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CYTOLOGY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTOGENETICS; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; LEARNING; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTOGENETICS; ORIENTATION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84927164590     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.027     Document Type: Article

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