Firing modes and membrane properties in lemniscal auditory thalamus

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 254-257

  Tennigkeit, Frank ^a   Puil, Ernest ^a   Schwarz, Dietrich W F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

anaesthesia; auditory thalamus; firing pattern; ionic conductances; medial geniculate body; sleep; wakefulness

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN SLICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030899647     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489709117782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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