Characteristic membrane potential trajectories in primate sensorimotor cortex neurons recorded in vivo

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2713-2725

  Chen, Daofen ^a,b   Fetz, Eberhard E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MACACA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944559686     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00024.2005     Document Type: Article

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