Cell-attached measurements of the firing threshold of rat hippocampal neurones

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 517, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 791-804

  Fricker, Desdemona ^a   Verheugen, Jos A H ^a   Miles, Richard ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTERNEURON; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE; ANIMAL CELL; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ADHESION; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; SPIKE WAVE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL ADHESION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0033564155     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0791s.x     Document Type: Article

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