Rhythmicity without synchrony in the electrically uncoupled inferior olive

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 10898-10905

  Long, Michael A ^a   Deans, Michael R ^b   Paul, David L ^b   Connors, Barry W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin36; Electrical coupling; Gap junction; Harmaline; Inferior olive; Rhythms; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36; HARMALINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN STEM; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLIMBING FIBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GAP JUNCTION; GENOTYPE; INFERIOR OLIVE; INTERNEURON; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SPIKE; TREMOR;

EID: 0037114978     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-24-10898.2002     Document Type: Article

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