Patterns of spontaneous purkinje cell complex spike activity in the awake rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2728-2739

  Lang, Eric J ^a   Sugihara, Izumi ^b   Welsh, John P ^a   Llinás, Rodolfo ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climbing fiber; Inferior olive; Olivocerebellar; Oscillation; Rhythmicity; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLIMBING FIBER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL;

EID: 0033119905     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-07-02728.1999     Document Type: Article

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