Complex synaptic current waveforms evoked in hippocampal pyramidal neurons by extracellular stimulation of dentate gyrus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2475-2484

  Xiang, Zixiu ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BACLOFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STIMULUS SECRETION COUPLING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 2642646233     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.5.2475     Document Type: Article

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