The metabolic cost of neural information

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 36-41

  Laughlin, Simon B ^a   De Ruyter Van Steveninck, Rob R ^b   Anderson, John C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032057360     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/236     Document Type: Article

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