NMDA spikes in basal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6775, 2000, Pages 285-289

  Schiller, Jackie ^a   Major, Guy ^b,c   Koester, Helmut J ^d   Schiller, Yitzhak ^e  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; DENDRITE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0034673758     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35005094     Document Type: Article

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