Synaptic background activity controls spike transfer from thalamus to cortex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1760-1767

  Wolfart, Jakob ^a,c   Debay, Damien ^a   Le Masson, Gwendal ^b   Destexhe, Alain ^a   Bal, Thierry ^a  

^a Unite de Neurosciences Integratives et Computationnelles   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GUINEA PIG; HYPERPOLARIZATION; LINEAR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, T-TYPE; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDBACK; GENICULATE BODIES; GUINEA PIGS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28044441132     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1591     Document Type: Article

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