Reliability of spike propagation in arborizations of dorsal root fibers studied by analysis of postsynaptic potentials mediated by electrotonic coupling in the frog spinal cord

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 3451-3459

  Dityatev, Alexander E ^a   Clamann, H Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CALCIUM ION; HEPTANOL; MAGNESIUM ION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FROG; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0029861748     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.5.3451     Document Type: Article

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