Tone-evoked excitatory and inhibitory synaptic conductances of primary auditory cortex neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 630-643

  Tan, Andrew Y Y ^a   Zhang, Li I ^a   Merzenich, Michael M ^a   Schreiner, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE; STIMULUS; SYNAPTIC EXCITATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TONE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 3042592424     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01020.2003     Document Type: Article

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