Self-sustained rhythmic activity in the thalamic reticular nucleus mediated by depolarizing GABA(A) receptor potentials

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 168-174

  Bazhenov, M ^a   Timofeev, I ^b   Steriade, M ^b   Sejnowski, T J ^a,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PERIODICITY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0033366338     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5729     Document Type: Article

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