Synaptic excitability of the burst firing neurons in cat sensorimotor cortex in vitro

Brain Research

Volumn 842, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 101-108

  Kitagawa, Hirofumi ^a   Nishimura, Yoshihiro ^b   Yamamoto, Tetsuro ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chattering; Intracellular recording; Local circuit; Motor; Pyramidal neuron; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033581398     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01850-8     Document Type: Article

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