Cross-Streams Through the Ventral Posteromedial Thalamic Nucleus to Convey Vibrissal Information

• Main Authors: Huimin Zhang (Author), Xiaojun Wang (Author), Wenyan Guo (Author), Anan Li (Author), Ruixi Chen (Author), Fei Huang (Author), Xiaoxiang Liu (Author), Yijun Chen (Author), Ning Li (Author), Xiuli Liu (Author), Tonghui Xu (Author), Zheng Xue (Author), Shaoqun Zeng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Whisker detection is crucial to adapt to the environment for some animals, but how the nervous system processes and integrates whisker information is still an open question. It is well-known that two main parallel pathways through Ventral posteromedial thalamic nucleus (VPM) ascend to the barrel cor...