Balanced excitation and inhibition determine spike timing during frequency adaptation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 448-457

  Higley, Michael J ^a   Contreras, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrels; Conductance; Cortex; Intracellular; Synaptic; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOUCH; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 32544451096     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3506-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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