Dynamics of local cerebral blood flow in different somatosensory cortical layers during whisker stimulation in rats

Whisker stimulation in rats was found to increase the local cerebral blood flow (lCBF), its SD and to damp slow oscillations. It was established that lCBF drops slightly within a few seconds after the stimulus onset. The data obtained suggest that lCBF evoked sensory stimulation changes are distinctly localized in different layers of the somatosensory cortex.