Table 1.

Responses to Bilateral Whisker Stimulation Recorded in Striatal MSNs and Pyramidal Neurons in Layer 5 of the Barrel Cortex

	Ipsilateral		Contralateral		Bilateral
	Up	Down	Up	Down	Up	Down
Onset (ms)
Cortex	24.84 ± 5.77	25.11 ± 6.49	13.2 ± 3.6	13.32 ± 3.61	15.85 ± 7.55	13.38 ± 3.42
Striatum	28.84 ± 8.14	28.45 ± 6.94	19.62 ± 4.59	19.78 ± 5.09	18.76 ± 4.75	19.78 ± 3.42
Peak (ms)
Cortex	59.1 ± 18.62	71.13 ± 21.98	33.46 ± 8.3	37.75 ± 8.52	32.84 ± 9.85	35.07 ± 8.52
Striatum	57.6 ± 22.65	66.88 ± 26.08	46.38 ± 13.55	52.62 ± 15.82	44.13 ± 12.15	43.17 ± 10.94
Amplitude (mV)
Cortex	1.8 ± 2.17	9.11 ± 3.4	7.27 ± 3.9	14.07 ± 5.67	6.68 ± 4.02	15.72 ± 7.09
Striatum	5.3 ± 2.92	10.27 ± 3.27	8.83 ± 4.78	15.65 ± 6.9	10.03 ± 5.64	20.37 ± 6.52
Normalized amplitude
Cortex	0.15 ± 0.18	0.7 ± 0.25	0.53 ± 0.19	1 ± 0	0.48 ± 0.22	1.12 ± 0.46
Striatum	0.38 ± 0.23	0.82 ± 0.49	0.58 ± 0.21	1 ± 0	0.69 ± 0.39	1.45 ± 0.5
Slope (mV/ms)
Cortex	0.12 ± 0.06	0.23 ± 0.12	0.39 ± 0.25	0.66 ± 0.35	0.42 ± 0.28	0.8 ± 0.43
striatum	0.21 ± 0.13	0.36 ± 0.24	0.4 ± 0.31	0.62 ± 0.46	0.46 ± 0.36	1.08 ± 0.63

Mean values ± SD. The normalization was done with respect to the contralateral average amplitude during down states for each neuron.