JSON

barrel cortex

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0010415

One of the discrete functional units of the somatosensory cortex that processes tactile information derived from the vibrissae. [ MP : 0003989 ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

Subsets

pheno_slim

definition
  • One of the discrete functional units of the somatosensory cortex that processes tactile information derived from the vibrissae.
external definition
  • The term primary somatosensory area, barrel field refers to one of 6 subdivisions of the primary somesthetic area of the cerebral cortex in the mouse (Dong-2004) and the rat (Swanson-2004). It is defined as dark-staining regions in Nissl and other types of stains of layer four of the somatosensory cortex of rodents where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus, in particular input from the whiskers. Each barrel ranges in size from 100-400 um in diameter. (modified from BrainInfo and Wikipedia)
has related synonym
  • whisker barrels
  • primary somatosensory area barrel field
  • barrel field
  • primary somatosensory cortex, barrel field
  • barrel field of the primary somatosensory area
  • barrel cortex
  • primary somatosensory area, barrel field
  • barrel field sensory area
  • whisker sensory area
id
  • UBERON:0010415