Physiological properties of rat ventral pallidal neurons recorded intracellularly in vivo

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1432-1443

  Lavin, Antonieta ^a,b   Grace, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029994952     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.4.1432     Document Type: Article

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