Action Potential Timing Determines Dendritic Calcium during Striatal Up-States

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 877-885

  Kerr, Jason N D ^a,b   Plenz, Dietmar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action potential backpropagation; Calcium; Cortex; Dendritic processing; Down state; Electrophysiology; Fura 2; Imaging; NMDA; Organotypic culture; Plasticity; Spike timing; Spiny projection neuron; Striatum; Substantia nigra; Up state

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; FURA 2; MAGNESIUM ION; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGING; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATIC CELL; SPIKE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; MAGNESIUM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0742270491     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4475-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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