Intrinsic membrane properties and synaptic response characteristics of neurons in the rat's external cortex of the inferior colliculus

Neuroscience

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 851-865

  Ahuja, T K ^a   Wu, S H ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

action potential; auditory brainstem; firing pattern; ICx; postsynaptic potential; whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; WHOLE CELL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; RATS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 33947408139     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.12.031     Document Type: Article

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