Modulation of bursts and high-threshold calcium spikes in neurons of rat auditory thalamus

Neuroscience

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1063-1073

  Tennigkeit, F ^a,b   Schwarz, D W F ^b   Puil, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Dept Surg (Otolaryngol) U   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Calcium spikes; Persistent sodium current; Rat; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; CADMIUM; CALCIUM ION; SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN; TETRYLAMMONIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SODIUM CONDUCTANCE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRODOTOXIN; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032509723     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00458-2     Document Type: Article

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