The efficiency of sensory information coding by mechanoreceptor neurons

Neuron

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 959-968

  Juusola, Mikko ^a,b   French, Andrew S ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIDER; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

EID: 0030908090     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80335-9     Document Type: Article

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