The reliability of excitatory synaptic transmission in slices of rat visual cortex in vitro is temperature dependent

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 507, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 249-256

  Hardingham, Neil R ^a   Larkman, Alan U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL; COLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COOLING; EXCITATORY SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROELECTRODE; MINIATURE ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPONTANEOUS TRANSIENT OUTWARD CURRENT;

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMALS; COLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032519604     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.249bu.x     Document Type: Article

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