Whole-cell patch-clamp recording reveals subthreshold sound-evoked postsynaptic currents in the inferior colliculus of awake bats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3009-3018

  Covey, Ellen ^a,b   Kauer, Julie A ^a   Casseday, John H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory midbrain; central auditory system; in vivo whole cell patch clamp recording; inferior colliculus; intracellular recording; postsynaptic currents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0029879553     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-09-03009.1996     Document Type: Article

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