Single Spine Ca2+ Signals Evoked by Coincident EPSPs and Backpropagating Action Potentials in Spiny Stellate Cells of Layer 4 in the Juvenile Rat Somatosensory Barrel Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1689-1699

  Nevian, Thomas ^a   Sakmann, Bert ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backpropagating action potential; Barrel cortex; Calcium; Coincidence detection; Dendrite; EPSP; NMDA receptor; Spine; Spiny stellate cell; Two photon microscopy

Indexed keywords

6 NITRO 7 SULFAMOYLBENZO[F]QUINOXALINE 2,3 DIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STELLATE CELL; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; AGE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 1242274391     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3332-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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