The high-conductance state of neocortical neurons in vivo

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 739-751

  Destexhe, Alain ^a   Rudolph, Michael ^a   Paré, Denis ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; DENDRITE; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0141499222     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1198     Document Type: Article

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