Short Duty Cycle Destabilizes a Half-Center Oscillator, but Gap Junctions can Restabilize the Anti-Phase Pattern

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 693-703

  Bem, Tiaza ^a   Rinzel, John ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; GAP JUNCTION; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; PACEMAKER; PACEMAKER NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; GAP JUNCTIONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER);

EID: 0842349557     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00783.2003     Document Type: Article

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