Awake vs. anesthetized: Layer-specific sensory processing in visual cortex and functional connectivity between cortical areas

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3798-3815

  Sellers, Kristin K ^a,b   Bennett, Davis V ^a   Hutt, Axel ^c   Williams, James H ^a   Fröhlich, Flavio ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c INRIA   (France)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Ferret; Frequency structure; Isoflurane; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; XYLAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FERRET; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; MUSTELA PUTORIS FURO; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FERRETS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84934970514     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00923.2014     Document Type: Article

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