Well-timed, brief inhibition can promote spiking: Postinhibitory facilitation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2664-2677

  Dodla, Ramana ^a   Svirskis, Gytis ^a,c   Rinzel, John ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GERBILLINAE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646254126     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00752.2005     Document Type: Article

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