| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In the somatosensory barrel cortex of mice, we found that thalamic latency to GABAergic neurons are shorter than that to excitatory neurons in layer 4, by about 0. 8 ms. This latency difference enables very fast inhibition in L4 and L2/ 3 neurons, which plays a critical role in generation of spike sequences of" L4 followed by L2/ 3" in response to whisker stimulation. We also found that such latency difference was created after P12-14, simultaneously with the initiation of critical period. We indicated that such latency difference was resulted from differed thickness of axons projecting those target neurons.
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