Passive electrical cable properties and synaptic excitation of tiger salamander retinal ganglion cells

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 979-990

  Taylor, W Rowland ^a,b   Mittman, Scott ^a,c   Copenhagen, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrite; EPSC; Filtering; NMDA; Passive electrotonic properties

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPSES; URODELA;

EID: 0030229237     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523800009202     Document Type: Article

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