A new cellular mechanism for coupling inputs arriving at different cortical layers

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6725, 1999, Pages 338-341

  Larkum, Matthew E ^a   Zhu, J Julius ^a   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CALCIUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033602368     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18686     Document Type: Article

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