On the analytic solution of electrotonic spread in branched passive dendritic trees

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 301-311

  Steinberg, Izchak Z ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Dendritic trees; Electrotonic conduction

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CONDITION; DENDRITIC TREE; DENDRITICS; EIGEN-VALUE; ELECTROTONIC CONDUCTION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NONTRIVIAL SOLUTION; TIME-CONSTANTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; DENDRITE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE ENDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TIME;

EID: 0030447682     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00161090     Document Type: Article

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