Tetrodotoxin-sensitive persistent current boosts the depolarization of retinal amacrine cells in goldfish

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 97-100

  Watanabe, Shu Ichi ^a   Satoh, Hiromasa ^a   Koizumi, Amane ^a   Takayanagi, Tohru ^a   Kaneko, Akimichi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; Excitatory postsynaptic potential; Graded depolarization; Intracellular recording; Light response; Patch clamp; Persistent Na+ current; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GOLDFISH; ILLUMINATION; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CARPS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GOLDFISH; INTERNEURONS; ION CHANNEL GATING; LIGHT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SODIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0033989748     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00903-9     Document Type: Article

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