Dendritic voltage-gated K+ conductance gradient in pyramidal neurones of neocortical layer 5B from rats

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 579, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 737-752

  Schaefer, Andreas T ^a   Helmstaedter, Moritz ^a   Schmitt, Arno C ^a   Bar Yehuda, Dan ^b   Almog, Mara ^b   Ben Porat, Hana ^b   Sakmann, Bert ^a   Korngreen, Alon ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN SLICE; DENDRITE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VOLTAGE CLAMP TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL SHAPE; DENDRITES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEOCORTEX; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 33947181408     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.122564     Document Type: Article

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