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J Neurophysiol 81: 692-701, 1999;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 81 No. 2 February 1999, pp. 692-701
Copyright ©1999 by the American Physiological Society

Varying the Degree of Single-Whisker Stimulation Differentially Affects Phases of Intrinsic Signals in Rat Barrel Cortex

Daniel B. Polley, Cynthia H. Chen-Bee, and Ron D. Frostig

Department of Psychobiology and the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-4550

Varying the degree of single-whisker stimulation differentially affects phases of intrinsic signals in rat barrel cortex. . Neurophysiol. 81: 692-701, 1999. Using intrinsic signal optical imaging (ISI), we have shown previously that the point spread of evoked activity in the rat barrel cortex in response to single-whisker stimulation encompasses a surprisingly large area. Given that our typical stimulation consists of five deflections at 5 Hz, the large area of evoked activity might have resulted from repetitive stimulation. Thus in the present study, we use ISI through the thinned skull to determine whether decreasing the degree of single-whisker stimulation decreases the area of the cortical point spread. We additionally outline a protocol to quantify stimulus-related differences in the temporal characteristics of intrinsic signals at a fine spatial scale. In 10 adult rats, whisker C2 was stimulated randomly with either one or five deflections delivered in a rostral-to-caudal fashion. Each deflection consisted of a 0.5-mm displacement of the whisker as measured at the point of contact, 15 mm from the snout. The number of whisker deflections did not affect the area or peak magnitude of the cortical point spread based on the intrinsic signal activity occurring from 0.5 up to 1.5 s poststimulus onset. In contrast, the magnitude and time course of intrinsic signal activity collected after 1.5-s poststimulus onset did reflect the difference in the degree of stimulation. Thus decreasing the degree of stimulation differentially affected the early and late phases of the evoked intrinsic signal response. The implications of the present results are discussed in respect to probable differences in the signal source underlying the early versus later phases of evoked intrinsic signals.

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