Synaptic facilitation by reflected action potentials: Enhancement of transmission when nerve impulses reverse direction at axon branch points

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 8345-8350

  Baccus, Stephen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DENDRITE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FACILITATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LEECH; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GANGLIA, SENSORY; LEECHES; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032493280     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.14.8345     Document Type: Article

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