Effect of subthreshold up and down states on the whisker-evoked response in somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3511-3521

  Sachdev, Robert N S ^a,c   Ebner, Ford F ^b   Wilson, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FORCE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 8644288130     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00347.2004     Document Type: Article

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