@misc{oai:niigata-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00005855,
 author = {Baba, Hironori},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {Although temporal information processing is important in auditory perception, the mechanisms for coding tonal offsets are unknown. We investigated cortical responses elicited at the offset of tonal stimuli using flavoprotein fluorescence imaging in mice. Off-responses were clearly observed at the offset of tonal stimuli lasting for 7 s, but not after stimuli lasting for 1 s. Off-responses to the short stimuli appeared in a similar cortical region, when conditioning tonal stimuli lasting for 5–20 s preceded the stimuli. MK-801, an inhibitor of NMDA receptors, suppressed the two types of off-responses, suggesting that disinhibition produced by NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic depression might be involved in the off-responses. The peak off-responses were localized in a small region adjacent to the primary auditory cortex, and no frequency-dependent shift of the response peaks was found. Frequency matching of preceding tonal stimuli with short test stimuli was not required for inducing off-responses to short stimuli. Two-photon calcium imaging demonstrated significantly larger neuronal off-responses to stimuli lasting for 7 s in this field, compared with off-responses to stimuli lasting for 1 s. The present results indicate the presence of an auditory cortical field responding to long-lasting tonal offsets, possibly for temporal information processing., 学位の種類: 博士（医学）. 報告番号: 甲第4267号. 学位記番号: 新大院博（医）甲第745号. 学位授与年月日: 平成29年3月23日, Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 34421 (2016), 新大院博（医）甲第745号},
 title = {Auditory cortical field coding long-lasting tonal offsets in mice.},
 year = {2017}
}