Properties of sodium currents and action potential firing in isolated cerebellar Purkinje neurons

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 868, Issue , 1999, Pages 93-96

  Raman, Indira M ^a   Bean, Bruce P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; CEREBELLUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PURKINJE CELL; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032968941     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb11279.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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