Graded persistent activity in entorhinal cortex neurons

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6912, 2002, Pages 173-178

  Egorov, Alexei V ^a   Hamam, Bassam N ^a   Fransén, Erik ^b   Hasselmo, Michael E ^c   Alonso, Angel A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; POSITIVE IONS;

CORTEX;

NEUROLOGY;

MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR;

BIOLOGY; MEMORY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALCIUM CURRENT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037079011     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01171     Document Type: Article

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