Postnatal maturational properties of rat parafascicular thalamic neurons recorded in vitro

Thalamus and Related Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-113

  Phelan, K D ^a   Mahler, H R ^a   Deere, T ^a   Cross, C B ^a   Good, C ^a   Garcia Rill, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Parafascicular; Pedunculopontine nucleus

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 33847312367     PISSN: 14729288     EISSN: 17448107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1472928805000105     Document Type: Article

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