Oscillatory behaviors in pharmacologically isolated heart interneurons from the medicinal leech

Neurocomputing

Volumn 32-33, Issue , 2000, Pages 97-104

  Cymbalyuk, G S ^a   Calabrese, R L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bursting; Oscillatory behavior; Sodium plateau; Window current

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELLS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHARMACODYNAMICS;

BURSTING; ISOLATED HEART INTERNEURONS; OSCILLATORY BEHAVIOR; WINDOW CURRENT;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

CALCIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; HEART BEAT; INTERNEURON; ISOLATED HEART; LEECH; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE;

EID: 0033912652     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(00)00149-1     Document Type: Article

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