Balanced inhibition and excitation underlies spike firing regularity in ventral cochlear nucleus chopper neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1236-1248

  Paolini, Antonio G ^a,b   Clarey, Janine C ^c   Needham, Karina ^b   Clark, Graeme M ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Gain control; Neural timing; Rat; Receptive field; Stellate cells

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE; STELLATE CELL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17144430433     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03958.x     Document Type: Article

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