Electrical synapses and synchrony: The role of intrinsic currents

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 6280-6294

  Pfeuty, Benjamin ^a   Mato, Germán ^b   Golomb, David ^c,d   Hansel, David ^a,e,f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^f Lab Neurophys Physiol Syst M   (France)

Author keywords

Conductance based model; Electrical synapses; Intrinsic currents; Neocortex; Neuronal network model; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTATION; FAST SPIKING INTERNEURON; INTERNEURON; INTRINSIC CURRENT; ION CONDUCTANCE; LOW THRESHOLD SPIKING INTERNEURON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHASE RESPONSE FUNCTION; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SODIUM CURRENT; SPIKE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

EID: 0037706084     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-15-06280.2003     Document Type: Article

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