A slowly inactivating potassium current in CA3 pyramidal cells of rat hippocampus in vitro

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 586-594

  Lüthi, Anita ^a   Gähwiler, Beat H ^a   Gerber, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CA3 cells; D current; latency to discharge; metabotropic glutamate receptors; muscarinic receptors; transient K+ currents

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; BARIUM; CALCIUM ION; CESIUM; CHARYBDOTOXIN; CHELATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; DENDROTOXIN; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0030031458     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-02-00586.1996     Document Type: Article

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