Acceleration of AMPA receptor kinetics underlies temperature-dependent changes in synaptic strength at the rat calyx of Held

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 579, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-84

  Postlethwaite, M ^a   Hennig, M H ^b   Steinert, J R ^a   Graham, B P ^b   Forsythe, I D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIGH TEMPERATURE; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WHOLE CELL; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; CALYX OF HELD; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; TRAPEZOID BODY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; KINETICS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33846941201     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.123612     Document Type: Article

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