The intrinsic electrophysiological characteristics of fly lobula plate tangential cells: I. Passive membrane properties

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 313-336

  Borst, Alexander ^a   Haag, Juergen ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER LABORATORY OF THE MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compartmental model; Data base; Dendritic integration; Membrane parameters; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

'CURRENT; COMPARTMENTAL MODELLING; DATA BASE; DENDRITIC INTEGRATION; DENDRITICS; MEMBRANE PARAMETERS; MEMBRANE PROPERTIES; STEADY STATE; TANGENTIAL CELLS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELLS;

COBALT;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0030459856     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00161091     Document Type: Article

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