Persistent sodium currents in mesencephalic V neurons participate in burst generation and control of membrane excitability

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2710-2722

  Wu, Nanping ^a   Enomoto, Akifumi ^a,b   Tanaka, Sasumu ^a,c   Hsiao, Chie Fang ^a   Nykamp, Duane Q ^d   Izhikevich, Eugene ^e   Chandler, Scott H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MATSUMOTO DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICS; CADMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRIMIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RILUZOLE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17644424970     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00636.2004     Document Type: Article

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