Spikelet currents in frog tectal neurons with different firing patterns in vitro

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 406, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 142-147

  Gutmaniene, Nijole ^a   Svirskiene, Nataša ^a   Svirskis, Gytis ^a,b  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Dendrites; Sodium; Whole cell recording

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; KYNURENIC ACID; LIDOCAINE ETHOBROMIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FROG; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VOLTAGE CLAMP; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RANA TEMPORARIA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747801355     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.035     Document Type: Article

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