Calcium action potentials restricted to distal apical dendrites of rat neocortical pyramidal neurons

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 505, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 605-616

  Schiller, Jackie ^a,b   Schiller, Yitzhak ^a,b   Stuart, Greg ^a,c   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; CADMIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DEPOLARIZATION; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM ACTION POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; REGENERATIVE POTENTIAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CALCIUM; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FLUORESCENCE; ISOXAZOLES; NEOCORTEX; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROPIONATES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 0031574079     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1997.605ba.x     Document Type: Article

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