Low-voltage-activated A-current controls the firing dynamics of mouse hypothalamic orexin neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3281-3285

  Burdakov, Denis ^a,c   Alexopoulos, Haris ^a,b   Vincent, Angela ^b   Ashcroft, Frances M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A current; Hypocretin; Hypothalamus; Orexin; Wakefulness

Indexed keywords

OREXIN A; OREXIN B;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VOLTAGE CLAMP; WAKEFULNESS;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPEPTIDES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 10944228706     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03815.x     Document Type: Article

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