In vivo dendritic calcium dynamics in deep-layer cortical pyramidal neurons

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 989-996

  Helmchen, Fritjof ^a   Svoboda, Karel ^b   Denk, Winfried ^a   Tank, David W ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DYNAMICS; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033308720     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/14788     Document Type: Article

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