Determinants of action potential propagation in cerebellar Purkinje cell axons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 464-472

  Monsivais, Pablo ^a   Clark, Beverley A ^a   Roth, Arnd ^a   Häusser, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon; Burst; Climbing fiber; Excitability; Refractory; Sodium channel

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SOMATIC CELL; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; CALCIUM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 12144255931     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3871-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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