A strict correlation between dendritic and somatic plateau depolarizations in the rat prefrontal cortex pyramidal neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3940-3951

  Milojkovic, Bogdan A ^a,b   Radojicic, Mihailo S ^a   Antic, Srdjan D ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal dendrites; Dendritic recordings; Glutamate; Plateau potentials; UP states; Voltage sensitive dyes

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATIC CELL; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DENDRITES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; IONTOPHORESIS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; STATISTICS; STYRENES; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 17644414174     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5314-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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