Direct control of firing rate gain by dendritic shunting inhibition

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 199-222

  Capaday, Charles ^a   Van Vreeswijk, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Firing gain; Gain modulation; Membrane conductance; Motoneurons; Multiplication

Indexed keywords

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS;

EID: 33745287755     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S021963520600115X     Document Type: Article

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