Rhythmic episodes of subthreshold membrane potential oscillations in the rat inferior olive nuclei in vivo

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 5043-5052

  Chorev, Edith ^a   Yarom, Yosef ^a   Lampl, Ilan ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Complex spikes; in vivo; Inferior olive; Intracellular; Oscillations; Rhythmicity

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OSCILLATION; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHYTHM; SPECTROSCOPY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELL MEMBRANE; CEREBELLUM; GAP JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PERIODICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34248371619     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5187-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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