Continuous electrical oscillations emerge from a coupled network: A study of the inferior olive using lentiviral knockdown of connexin36

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 5008-5016

  Placantonakis, Dimitris G ^a   Bukovsky, Anatoly A ^b   Aicher, Sue A ^b   Kiem, Hans Peter ^c   Welsh, John P ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Gap junction; Gene transfer; Mutant; Rat; Rhythm

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 36; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DRUG INHIBITION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; GAP JUNCTION; INFERIOR OLIVE; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; LENTIVIRINAE; METABOLISM; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; LENTIVIRUS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RATS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33646922574     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0146-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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