Neuroenergetics and the kinetic design of excitatory synapses

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 841-849

  Attwell, David ^a   Gibb, Alasdair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; SODIUM ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; COGNITION; DENDRITE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRANULE CELL; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ION CONDUCTANCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM TRANSPORT; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; KINETICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 27644561355     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1784     Document Type: Review

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