Ionic mechanisms underlying repetitive high-frequency burst firing in supragranular cortical neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 4829-4843

  Brumberg, Joshua C ^a   Nowak, Lionel G ^a   McCormick, David A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Afterdepolarizations; Afterhyperpolarizations; Bursting; Chattering cells; Na+ currents; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE ETHOBROMIDE; PHENYTOIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; FERRET; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034235752     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-13-04829.2000     Document Type: Article

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