A quantitative description of short-term plasticity at excitatory synapses in layer 2/3 of rat primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 7926-7940

  Varela, Juan A ^a   Sen, Kamal ^a   Gibson, Jay ^a,b   Fost, Joshua ^a   Abbott, L F ^a   Nelson, Sacha B ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast adaptation; Depression; EPSC; Facilitation; Field potential; Neocortex; Nonlinearity; Presynaptic; Temporal filtering; Temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030855997     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-20-07926.1997     Document Type: Article

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