Properties of mEPSCs recorded in layer II neurones of rat barrel cortex

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 545, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 509-520

  Simkus, Christopher R L ^a   Stricker, Christian ^a  

^a Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; TETRODOTOXIN;

AGE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL COUNT; CELL POLARITY; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY MODULATION; ILLUMINATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MICROSCOPY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIPOLAR CELL; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL SPECIFICITY; CORTEX LAYER II; CURRENT CLAMP TECHNIQUE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIPOLAR CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINETICS; LYSINE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036903850     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.022095     Document Type: Article

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