Role of voltage-gated K+ currents in mediating the regular-spiking phenotype of callosal-projecting rat visual cortical neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2321-2335

  Locke, Rachel E ^a   Nerbonne, Jeanne M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 1842290427     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.5.2321     Document Type: Article

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