Spread of dendritic excitation in layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in rat barrel cortex in vivo

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-73

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

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PAIN; PHOTONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0033360170     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4569     Document Type: Article

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