Cable properties of cultured hippocampal neurons determined from sucrose-evoked miniature EPSCs

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1250-1255

  Bekkers, John M ^a   Stevens, Charles F ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; SUCROSE;

EID: 0029967658     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.3.1250     Document Type: Article

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