Unique postsynaptic signaling at the hair cell efferent synapse permits calcium to evoke changes on two time scales

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 428-437

  Sridhar, T S ^a,b   Brown, M C ^a,b,c   Sewell, W F ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; cochlea; cyclopiazonic acid; outer hair cell; ryanodine; subsurface cisterna

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); CALCIUM; CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; RYANODINE; THAPSIGARGIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0031015727     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-01-00428.1997     Document Type: Article

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