Stochastic description of complex and simple spike firing in cerebellar Purkinje cells

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 785-794

  Shin, Soon Lim ^a   Rotter, Stefan ^b   Aertsen, Ad ^b   De Schutter, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaesthetized rat; Coefficient of variation; Inferior olive; Order; Rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERIODICITY; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33847040792     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05308.x     Document Type: Article

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