Local and thalamic origins of correlated ongoing and sensory-evoked cortical activities

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Malina, Katayun Cohen Kashi ^a   Mohar, Boaz ^a,b   Rappaport, Akiva N ^a   Lampl, Ilan ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RODENT; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; WAKEFULNESS; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIBRISSA;

MUS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84987650452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12740     Document Type: Article

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