Amplitude and time course of spontaneous and evoked excitatory postsynaptic currents in bushy cells of the anteroventral cochlear nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1566-1571

  Isaacson, Jeffry S ^a,b   Walmsley, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; CYCLOTHIAZIDE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029744509     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.3.1566     Document Type: Article

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