Reproducibility and variance of a stimulation-induced hemodynamic response in barrel cortex of awake behaving mice

Takuwa, Hiroyuki; Autio, Joonas; Nakayama, Haruka; Matsuura, Tetsuya; Obata, Takayuki; Okada, Eiji; Masamoto, Kazuto; Kanno, Iwao

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2010.11.007

Reproducibility and variance of a stimulation-induced hemodynamic response in barrel cortex of awake behaving mice

The present work evaluated the reproducibility and variance of the cerebral blood flow (CBF) response to natural whisker stimulation in the barrel cortex of awake behaving mice. The animal was placed on an air float ball that allowed the animal to walk, while the head of the animal was fixed in a…