Integration of quanta in cerebellar granule cells during sensory processing

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6985, 2004, Pages 856-860

  Chadderton, Paul ^a   Margie, Troy W ^a   Häusser, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASTICITY; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CORTICAL STRUCTURES; GRANULE CELLS;

CELLS;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

BIOLOGY; MEMORY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRANULE CELL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RAT; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NERVE FIBERS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1942435220     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02442     Document Type: Article

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