Possibility of multiquantal transmission at single inhibitory synapse in cultured rat hippocampal neurons

Neuroscience

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1217-1230

  Fedulova, S A ^a   Vasilyev, D V ^a   Isaeva, E V ^b   Romanyuk, S G ^b   Veselovsky, N S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b BOGOMOLETZ INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

IPSC; Poisson's statistics; Single presynaptic bouton

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CHLORIDE ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOGRAM; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RATS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033048293     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00084-6     Document Type: Article

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