Functional organization of mouse barrel cortex.

• Main Author: Zheng, Sophia Yuan Yun.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology::Neurobiology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16322
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Primary somatosensory cortex is a six-layered structure useful for studying the spatial organization of synaptic processing within a column of cortical circuitry. For this purpose, I used voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSDI) to visualize synaptic transmission within in vitro slice preparations of th...