Spontaneous activity of dopaminergic retinal neurons

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2158-2169

  Steffen, Michael A ^a   Seay, Christina A ^a   Amini, Behrang ^a   Cai, Yidao ^a   Feigenspan, Andreas ^b   Baxter, Douglas A ^a   Marshak, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMPEDANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACEMAKER; POTASSIUM CURRENT; RETINA NERVE CELL; SODIUM CURRENT; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141531000     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74642-6     Document Type: Article

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