Maintenance of persistent activity in a frontal thalamocortical loop

Nature

Volumn 545, Issue 7653, 2017, Pages 181-186

  Guo, Zengcai V ^a,c   Inagaki, Hidehiko K ^a   Daie, Kayvon ^a   Druckmann, Shaul ^a   Gerfen, Charles R ^b   Svoboda, Karel ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

BRAIN; NEUROLOGY; PHOTOINHIBITION; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR LATERAL MOTOR CORTEX; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; LICKING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; THALAMUS; TOUCH;

EID: 85018924359     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature22324     Document Type: Article

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