Whisking-Related Changes in Neuronal Firing and Membrane Potential Dynamics in the Somatosensory Thalamus of Awake Mice

Cell Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 647-656

  Urbain, Nadia ^a,b   Salin, Paul A ^b   Libourel, Paul Antoine ^b   Comte, Jean Christophe ^b   Gentet, Luc J ^b   Petersen, Carl C H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRING RATE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA; WAKEFULNESS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84945570154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.09.029     Document Type: Article

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