A pacemaker current in dye-coupled hilar interneurons contributes to the generation of giant GABAergic potentials in developing hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1435-1446

  Strata, Fabrizio ^a,b   Atzori, Marco ^a,c   Molnar, Margherita ^a   Ugolini, Gabriele ^a   Tempia, Filippo ^b   Cherubini, Enrico ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bursting activity; development; GABA; giant GABAergic potentials; hippocampus; inward rectifier current; pacemaker

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTERNEURON; ION CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031016827     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-04-01435.1997     Document Type: Article

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