Stimulus history reliably shapes action potential waveforms of cortical neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5657-5665

  De Polavieja, Gonzalo G ^a,b   Harsch, Annette ^a   Kleppe, Ingo ^a   Robinson, Hugh P C ^a   Juusola, Mikko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Action potential; AMPA; Conductance; Cortex; GABA; Information; NMDA; Noise; Synaptic communication

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 20444405647     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0242-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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